Hi, Ronald -
Seems to me what you are trying to do is really easier than all this.
1. Click on the Ellipse Select tool to get your oval selection.
2. Click on the little "Feather Edges" checkbox in the "Ellipse Select" tool.
You can experiment with the "Radius" setting to get the amount of shad
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
>>> For your question, I don't know of a way to do this without the use of
>>> layers.
>
> Fast and simple:
Faster, simpler:
Make your oval selection
Press [CTRL]+[i]
Press [Delete]
And as others have pointed out, you may with to feather the
On 03/30/2012 07:24 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
Fast and simple: Open your image. Make the selection you want with
the oval select tool. Do Select> Feather in your main menu. Then
do Control+i (or, Select> Invert) to select everything /but/ your
oval. Then drag and drop "white" from the color
On 03/30/2012 08:08 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> For your question, I don't know of a way to do this without the use of
>> layers.
Fast and simple: Open your image. Make the selection you want with
the oval select tool. Do Select > Feather in your main menu. Then
do Control+i (or, Selec
In message <4f763699.3000...@gmail.com>,
Stefan Maerz wrote:
>On 03/30/2012 03:19 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Anyway, a relative just sent me an old old family photo that some nitwit,
>> perhaps a generation or two ago, did some seriously violence to with a pair
>> of scissors. To salvag
On 03/30/2012 03:19 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Anyway, a relative just sent me an old old family photo that some nitwit,
perhaps a generation or two ago, did some seriously violence to with a pair
of scissors. To salvage this one and to make it look presentable I really
need to be able to ta
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:19 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> So anyway, how do I do this?
Bitmap images are rectangular. What you really need is a rectangular
image with the corners being transparent or white.
Make the selection bigger than you want, feather the selection, invert,
and cut.
I've been using gimp for awhile now and have had great success using it
to retouch about a zillion scans of old family photographs. but other than
then few things I need in order to do that (paintbrush, clone tool, rotate
tool and crop) I am still largely ignorant of how to use gimp. (There's
ju
