Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
I lost patience with GIMP when I tried to do this. It was very non-intuitive, the result appeared to be like doing brain surgery with chainsaw, but slower. As a result, I found that I don't mind having the background visible.
I was thinking about using the free-hand tool to select the areas I was interested in, but my hand's not that steady and you have to zoom in real close to see what your doing properly.

However, I've left the background in the unit card, and this is the result:



Don't look too bad considering it was done with the good ol' GIMP