It's better than some of Photoshop's selection tools GIMP's Foreground Select tool doesn't get enough love, but it's one of the software's best secret weapons, unlike Photoshop's Quick Select and ...

Click the "Bucket Fill" tool and then click inside the selection you drew previously around skin in the target image. GIMP fills the selection with the foreground color.

Select a portion of the image you wish to preserve using the appropriate selection tool. There are six selection methods in GIMP: rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, color, scissors and foreground.

If you can’t select the foreground objects or the background, you can’t edit much of anything. GIMP has seven Selection Tools, while Photoshop 2020 has ten.