[Gimp-user] Convert solid white background to transparent

2002-04-25 Thread Jeff Jensen
I have a picture from the Harley Davidson web site of an Ultra with a solid white background. Shouldn't there be a simple way of converting the white background to transparent automatically? ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.b

Re: [Gimp-user] Convert solid white background to transparent

2002-04-25 Thread Geoffrey
I'm no expert, so others may have a better solution Depending on how much white there is in the rest of the image, you could: add alpha, select by color (white) cut Note, you're remove all white though. The most difficult part is going to be selecting just the white background. Once you

Re: [Gimp-user] Convert solid white background to transparent

2002-04-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 07:13, Jeff Jensen wrote: > I have a picture from the Harley Davidson web site of an Ultra with a solid > white background. Shouldn't there be a simple way of converting the white > background to transparent automatically? > ___ tr

[Gimp-user] Re: Convert solid white background to transparent

2002-04-25 Thread GĂ©rald Brosseau
> Someone did a really nice tutorial on this issue recently and posted the > url to this list. Of course I don't know where a searchable archive is > so that does not help much does it? > > Bret > > --__--__-- > http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/color_to_alpha/color2alpha.html -- //

[Gimp-user] Missing gimptool?

2002-04-25 Thread Piotr Zembrowski
Hi, I'm new to the list and I don't know if this problem comes up often. (I didn't find it in the mail archives.) Just point me to FAQ if it does. I've installed SuSE LInux 7.3 with the Gimp 1.2.2. I've downloaded gimp-data-extras-1.2.0, unpacked it and tried to install them. I run "sh con

[Gimp-user] Removing background

2002-04-25 Thread Seth Burgess
> Someone did a really nice tutorial on this issue recently and posted the > url to this list. Of course I don't know where a searchable archive is > so that does not help much does it? The tutorial is at http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/color_to_alpha/color2alpha.html Do note that my tutorial wor

Re: [Gimp-user] Removing background

2002-04-25 Thread Carol Spears
On 2002-04-25 at 2057.01 -0700, Seth Burgess typed this mail: > The tutorial is at > http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/color_to_alpha/color2alpha.html > > Do note that my tutorial works best for non-photographic images, but you can > use it to get close with photographic ones and touch up what you ne

Re: [Gimp-user] Removing background

2002-04-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:40, Carol Spears wrote: > On 2002-04-25 at 2057.01 -0700, Seth Burgess typed this mail: > > The tutorial is at > > http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/color_to_alpha/color2alpha.html > > > > Do note that my tutorial works best for non-photographic images, but you can > > use it