Good morning,

I have a family tree picture that has blank rectangles and ovals in its branches to add pictures.

What is the best way to go about doing that?

Can I select the area within the rectangles/ovals and then import a picture into the selection and then resize the picture as needed to fill the selection (the imported picture will be much larger than the selection so I'll need to reduce it)?

Or is there another way?

Thank you!!!

There is another way.

A lot depends on your 'family tree picture' and if it is a suitable size in pixels.

This example comes from a PDF (right side of screenshot) imported into Gimp at 300 ppi.

The best way is use layer mask. some references

https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-mask-add.html

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Layer_Masks/ although not particularly relevant.

With a white layer mask.

In the image you can select inside the 'squares' and then in the layer mask fill with black.

This then becomes a 'window' on anything underneath.

Importing photos, then scaling and moving the layer gives the result.

There is another way.

A lot depends on your 'family tree picture' and if it is a suitable size in pixels.

This example comes from a PDF (right side of screenshot) imported

I mean the other right side