Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-09 Thread David Neary
Hi, Eric Pierce wrote: Actually, it'd be nice if Gimp could pick up some of the properties of PS's erase background tool. Would you mind describing how this tool works? Some screenshots would be brilliant. I am guessing that it's an erase tool with some kind of edge detection that doesn't

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Eric Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any techniques I'm missing? Well, I think you missed the most obvious one: Use the paintbrush or any other paint tool in Color erase mode. That's probably closest to the tool the original poster was asking about. Sven

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-09 Thread Eric Pierce
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:14:05AM +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, Eric Pierce wrote: Actually, it'd be nice if Gimp could pick up some of the properties of PS's erase background tool. Would you mind describing how this tool works? Some screenshots would be brilliant. I am guessing that

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Pierce
I use Filter-Color-Color to Alpha Shit, and I thought Gimp had one up on PS there too. Luckily, I got 3/4th of our marketing department (there's 4 of us) using Gimp because they (and I) didn't think you could cleanly remove backgrounds in PS. Eric P. On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:52:11PM +1000,

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Pierce
Actually, it'd be nice if Gimp could pick up some of the properties of PS's erase background tool. Adding 'Tolerance' to 'color to alpha' would be good start; and maybe that's all that's really necessary for this function. How does everybody else remove backgrounds? The other approaches I