How to Extract an Image From Background in GIMP

In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate how to extract an image from its background in GIMP. This is an extremely useful technique in image manipulation as it allows you to combine images together. For example, you can extract an object or person from an image and place it on top of the background of a second image. Here’s a video I made on how to extract the foreground image from a picture in GIMP.