What's not to like about something that does an outstanding job, even if imperfect?

This image is 98% Foreground select tool, with minimal 2% of using of the Smudge tool to get the tail looking frizzy again. Again, no tinkering was done with the selection, other than slightly marking the background "misses".

The horse original:



The horse in a new background, using Foreground Select (revamped to be a tad more realistic):

That is very cool! I only use the foreground select tool when I am putting a render on the image. I didn't know the power of tool.

Very nice cut out, but the splice doesn't look very natural. The lighting is more vertical in the target picture, and the horse misses a shadow IMHO.

Ofnuts:

Thanks for the critique, but my emphasis was more about how well the selection was in comparison to being done by hand/masking. I wasn't aiming for a perfect/realistic photo shot.

Edit: I added a better pose (although not perfect) in the first post.

Who wants to Esplain this to me? or is it the Magic Wand we are speaking of?

Foreground Select tool, it's next to the Scissor tool.

Lol I have Never Used it

Now that I know how this tool works, I love it

That tool still confuses me.

The Foreground extraction tool (believe based on SIOX) pretty much by itself is useless. In conjuction with using the quick mask toggle, it does save a heck of a lot of time though. I heard they are improving it for GIMP 2.8; hope so. I like GML Matting (no longer free, but my version is old and there was not a license limitation with it) better for most of what I have to do.