Have you seen photos where parts of the image are enhanced more than the others? Have you come across situations where color level editing over the entire image darkens some portions of the image so much that they become invisible or when you apply warmth to an image, some parts look artificial? If so, what you need is selective editing and this post covers how to use GIMP to do selective editing.

This post covers quite a few aspects of GIMP image editing:

• Image decomposition
• Quick mask
• Alpha channel
• Selective editing

Using this, we convert an image that looks like this:

to:

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