[Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Ed
Hello all, My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me please! Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? The document is scanned via xsane so I can have

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Ed, Ed wrote: Hello all, My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me please! Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? The document is scanned

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
P.S.: To keep the transparency, you should finally save the text either as TIFF, PNG, or XCF. JPEG doesn't support transparency. Claus ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Ed
On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:39, Claus Cyrny wrote: 6. The last step would be 'Layer Colors Apply Layer Mask...'. This will remove the background from the scan, leaving only the text Hello Claus, Many thanks for your help... I got as far as point '6' but I can't seem to find any variant of

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/8/07, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:39, Claus Cyrny wrote: 6. The last step would be 'Layer Colors Apply Layer Mask...'. This will remove the background from the scan, leaving only the text Hello Claus, Many thanks for your help... I got as far as point