On 10/16/2010 07:05 AM, BlackDalek wrote: > Ok, what I want to do is turning out to be a little more difficult than usual. > I can find plenty of tutorials on making parts of images transparent or > semi-transparent. > I can work out how to do this from scratch, creating an image. > The problem here is I am not creating an image from scratch - I want to take > an existing flat image with existing background and remove background and be > left with an image (complete with transparent and semi-transparent areas) > which I can then save to a PNG or use on any other background I wish. > > To illustrate what I want to do, I have made mockup images below. > Image 1 shows an image with a black background. I want to remove the black > background but leave the image and semi-transparent "rays" intact so they can > be placed onto a different background, as in image 2. Note that the "rays" > appear over the new background colour. > > image 1 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/BlackDalek/kbblack.png > > image 2 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/BlackDalek/kbcolour.png > > If anyone knows how to achieve this, please ellaborate. Feel free to download > and use the above kbblack.png image to explain how to get from image 1 to > image 2. > > Thanks > >
I get fairly close results by using two layers for the cat from top to bottom: 1) Plain cutout from original by using the magic wand on the background (the goal being to get a cutout of the center of the cat) with a 5pix grow/feather 2) "color to alpha" from original using black as the color. 3) Diagonal gradient using colors picked from your color version _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user