In today's Gimp Editor tutorial we're going to see how to put a decorative color circle around an image. Some ideas for this might be a person's face or a family portrait. I'm going to use a picture of Selena Gomez here so let's go ahead and begin. The first thing you want to do is open up the picture you're going to edit and after you have it opened you want to go over to the layers dialog and click to add a new layer. We want to create a transparent layer to go on top of our image. Click OK. Next we're going to choose our lip select tool and drag a circle around the area you want to capture. Okay from here you can leave the circle as it is and skip feathering or you may want to feather the circle. What feathering will do is create a faded edge around the circle so that when we color it won't be a hard jump from the fill color to the image. Let's go to select feather. You're going to need to adjust the selection amount depending on the size of your image. 30 is good for this image so I'm going to click OK. The next thing we want to do is invert the selection. Go to select invert. Now everything outside of the area we had selected before is what is selected so we can now apply color. I'm going to choose a purple color here and click OK. I'm going to select the blend fill tool, click and drag and let go. To turn off the marching ants on our selection I'm going to go to select none and you can see around the edge because of our feathering that the picture seems to fade a little bit into the background colors of the purple and white. Next I'm going to grab the cropping tool to make the picture more symmetrically balanced. After making the selection click into the picture to cut it. When working with layers the last thing you'll probably always want to do is merge the layers together. Right click on the top layer and select merge down. Now you have your finished image. Hope you enjoyed that. Thanks for watching PenguinTutorials.com.