Gimp does not have a colour eraser "tool". It does have a colour to alpha plugin though. By default the plugin will remove the selected colour from the whole image. To constrain this you will need to make a selection befor running the plugin.
Nigel Karl Auer wrote: > Hi there. > > Is there an eraser tool that will erase only a specific colour? That is, that will >selectively erase only those points it passes over that are of a particular color. >For example, you have an image with a line on it that you don't want. You use the >dropper to pick up some of the line colour, then tell the eraser to erase only that >colour. > > Similarly (and related to my previous question about filling outlines on transparent >layers) is there a cousin to the fill tool that selects a region based on colour? >Just as the fill tool works out towards a colour boundary and then fills inside the >boundary, so this tool would work out to a colour boundary and then select the area >within it. > > Other (much more primitive) "paint" programs have such tools, but I haven't located >them in the GIMP. > > As I use the GIMP more and more, it is becoming clear to me that some simple things >have very complicated solutions - apparently the price to pay for having very simple >solutions to complicated things :-) > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +41-43-2660706 (h) > http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +41- 1-6327531 (w) > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
