I took a photo of me standing against a wall. The wall is pale yellow in color. It's hard to describe its texture, but it isn't smooth, if that makes a difference.
To create a transparent background, I took the advice of an online tutorial. First I added an alpha channel with Layer / Transparency / Add Alpha Channel. Then I selected the background with the Fuzzy Select tool. Then I pressed the delete key. The result was a mostly transparent background. There's a moving black and white line that borders my image. There are also moving black-and-white striped areas near my arm, and random white spots that sparkle. I tried using the eraser tool to remove the black-and white patches, lines and spots, but after erasing them, they re-appeared. Another time I followed this procedure, the white areas were either more pronounced or there were orange-brown streaks bordering my photo. Is there a way I can efficiently remove the white debris in GIMP, whatever it's from, so the background is completely transparent, without having to take another photo of myself against a different background, e.g. a white one? It's important that I get this right as I want to place my photo against a more dramatic background image to display on my website. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. -- Accordeoniste (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
