: Highlight region with a darkened background I am struggling to do this in Gimp 2.8.22-1. https://s.natalian.org/2018-01-05/gimp.mp4 I used to be able to do this like so: http://dabase.com/blog/Highlighting_a_region_in_a_screensh

@Steve758

What I do is:


make a selection around what I need
Invert the selection (Select>Invert) (to select the rest of the picture)
Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to reduce the contrast over the rest of the image (and possibly slightly reduce the brightness as well).
In the more extreme cases apply a slight Gaussian blur (2-3) pixels


In other words what I want to highlight remains untouched, it is mostly the rest of the image which is dimmed.



(Image above: Contrast -30 and that's it).

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