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Person T has had Person A design a one-page flyer and sent it to Person J... as a single image. Person T is two hours ahead, time-zone wise, and Person A is roughly 12 hours behind. Person J also wishes to email out the flyer with hyperlinks on each of two names in the image. Sent as a bare image, she will not fly. Embedding the image in a PDF would allow only the entire image to possess a single hyperlink. So... crank up GIMP, open image, select the Move tool, drag Guides from each Ruler to section up the image. Each Guide changes nothing, however its presence allows the Rectangle Select tool to be very precise and consistent. Now File ⇒ Save the work-file in case you wish to adjust things for another round. Here, I have applied the Cubist tool from the Filters to most of the content, so the idea is conveyed without revealing details of said content. The next step is to Rectangle Select the top area (in the screenshot above, the left-name area has been Rectangle Select