I tried the fuzzy select tool. that's the magic wand tool in PSP, right? the one that automatically selects only a certain range of colors? I tried using that, but it still affected the entire image.

Wouldn't layers not help me in the process before dong this stuff with the background? that's when I'm trying to seperate the background already. and I can't seperate the background from the image I can't make a new layer, can I?

Also, what do you mean chapter?? Do you mean in GIMP? I guess I need to download the help file. I have no idea why they don't include the help file in the download. oh well