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This is an interesting use of layers...

Learn to use this technique with practice and extraction of a person can be easy to accomplish also....

Quote: "One of the facts of life of shooting with consumer digicams and their associated small imaging sensors is that it can be difficult to achieve a shallow depth of field. Having large depth of field is usually a good thing, leading to pictures in which all of the important parts of the picture are in focus. But sometimes you really want shallow depth of field to isolate a subject against a blurred background, as is often done in e.g. portraiture.
In this tutorial I'll show you how to simulate a shallow depth of field using image editing techniques. It is painstaking enough that it is no substitute for having camera equipment that is capable of the job. Nevertheless, it can be useful in rescuing the occasional picture."



Procedure

Quote: "As with many of the other tutorials on this site, the beauty of this method is in the use of layers. A duplicate layer is blurred and a layer mask added to make the subject transparent. The original image remains unsullied in its own layer."
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SimulatedDOF/

JR