Re: [Gimp-user] Removing Backgrounds in Digital photos

2007-08-09 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Upcoming GIMP 2.4 has a special tool for doing it - foreground selection tool. 2.4 can be tried now as GIMP 2.3.19. Also you will have to correct the obtained selection with freehand selection tool, maybe quick mask, intellect scissors or other selection tools. Other way is to select it initia

Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

2006-04-24 Thread Rob
Like Colin said, there are a lot of ways to do this, but I'm trying to learn more ways to do the same things. If I understand correctly, deleting should leave transparency everywhere that was the background colour. Cropping would cut the whole image down to the size of the remaining selection

Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

2006-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:30:56PM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > On 4/24/06, C. DeBerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can someone explain to me the process of removing the background color > > from my logo? It has this nasty white box around it, and looks horrible on > > colored paper/background

Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

2006-04-24 Thread Colin Brace
On 4/24/06, C. DeBerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone explain to me the process of removing the background color from my logo?  It has this nasty white box around it, and looks horrible on colored paper/backgrounds. There are probably various ways to do this, but one way would be to use