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A few weeks ago we went into the city here in Adelaide and as usual I took my camera with me. I took a number of close up photos of the flowers in the garden beds around the Adelaide Oval. I thought some of them may look good if I changed the background to black and white and left the rose in colour.

Below is my first attempt at this. I used the GIMP on Ubuntu Linux and a Bamboo tablet from Wacom. I’d tried this technique using just a mouse and the results not as good as using a tablet. Using the tablet was also easier on my wrist.

Initially I tried the Foreground Select tool, but found the rose was too complex. Either that or I wasn’t using the tool correctly. In the end I followed this tutorial and I think the resulting image is interesting.

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