Help me cut and past with GIMP, please

Factual Questions
1

Well, I’m stuck in GIMP. I have a photo that I want to cut the middle out of.
This middle, I want enlarged so that I can blow it up, and print, and discard the rest.
What I did: I went to toolbox, and outlined the section that I wanted to keep. Then, I used the tool that looked like an exacto knife…that’s where I got stuck.

How can I do what I want, now?

Thanks,
hh

2

GIMP is a powerful tool and isn’t user friendly, I’m sure someone will have your answer shortly, I don’t use GIMP anymore, but may I suggest XNView. It’s great and it’s free and will do what you want to do very easily

3

Use rectangular select-select area

Use “copy” command

Paste as…new image

4

Thank you, **Markxxx and runner pat. **

I shall do as both of you advise!

Best wishes,
hh

5

If you want the middle part you want the crop function:

  1. Tools/SelectionTools/Rectangular to draw a box around what you want to keep

  2. Image/Crop to discard everything else.

  3. Image/Scale to make it bigger.

hth…

6

To expand on that a little… this is all in Linux, I assume other versions are the same.

The tool that looks like an exacto knife is probably the brush tool. If you let the mouse hover on it, it will probably tell you what it is.

You can hit “ctrl + c” to copy, or right click in the rectangle and select edit > copy, or select edit> copy from the menubar on top of the image.

“ctrl + v” will paste a copy inside the image you’re working on, which you don’t want, but “shift + ctrl + v” or doing the “edit > paste as” will get it into a new image.

7

Got 'er done!
Thanks, everybody.

Best wishes,
hh