Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Elwin Estle
, their image server. --- On Tue, 5/24/11, peter kostov wrote: > From: peter kostov > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or > low-resolution and/or more complex images > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 4:23 PM > On 05/

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Ofnuts
On 05/24/2011 10:23 PM, peter kostov wrote: > Another option is painting on a layer mask - it is like the eraser tool, > but much more convenient to rework and correct. But it is almost > impossible to achieve crisp edges this way. For hard and crisp edges it > may be better to use the pen tool an

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Mikel Garai
Hi! In this situations what I do is: - select by either free tool or the scissors (depending on the case is easier with one or the other) - create a layer mask from the selection - adjust the little things than were not perfect after that and optionally to simulate the antialias and avoid the h

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Maerz
> Another option is painting on a layer mask - it is like the eraser tool, > but much more convenient to rework and correct. Good suggestion. Though I just found out about a new eraser tool feature by accident, so I thought I'd share. If you erase (with the eraser tool) an area and want it back,

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread peter kostov
On 05/24/2011 11:06 PM, Stefan Maerz wrote: > >> So, my question is how could I achieve the desired result for this and >> such images? >> How would do you work out similar or even more advanced cases? >> > > Hi Sophoklis, > > There are a few good methods to use. > > For cutting out a logo, sometim

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Maerz
> So, my question is how could I achieve the desired result for this and > such images? > How would do you work out similar or even more advanced cases? > Hi Sophoklis, There are a few good methods to use. For cutting out a logo, sometimes using Colors>Color to Alpha with the background color

[Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Sophoklis Goumas
Hello everyone and especially to the gimp-user mailing list regulars. I am trying to create a network infrastructure diagram for where I work with Dia. (In fact it will actually help me much more than anyone else, but that's not the subject.) For this I am putting into the diagram, images of: ser