> This problem involves an illo to be used on a book cover in > Scribus. > > Some time back I took a photo of a church with a white sky > background (OK very light gray). I was able to select and > delete the background so now I have the church plus a > transparent background. I saved it as png. When i used it > there was a very thin border of white pixels around the > outline of the church and its steeples etc. A Photoshop guy > said I could select the church, invert so that the background > was selected, enlarge the background by a few pixels and > delete it again to get rid of the white line. But right now the > background is just a transparency. > > Currently the illo is in png form, though of course I can go > back to the original jpg from the scanner. Using either > product, the png or the original jpg, how do I eliminate both > the sky and the white line? I want the background to be > totally transparent. I have Gimp 2.6.6 on Slackware 13.0 > Linux.
Without answering your question, may I suggest you do *all your work* in xcf format and only convert to png etc when finished with your work Anyway, without seeing the image, I would try just selecting the church, quickmask it and erase the offending white, -- Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
