Thank you so much, Liam, for your complete, clear cut explanations. As you can tell, I do need exact steps to try to accomplish this. I've printed this page and, hopefully, can follow your directions. Thank you! Marge
-----Original Message----- From: Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> To: efornwalt <efornw...@aol.com>; sandpiper2196664 <sandpiper2196...@outlook.com>; gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2019 4:06 am Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Export picture On Sun, 2019-09-15 at 00:51 +0000, efornw...@aol.com wrote: > Liam, thank you so much for your response. I've got a single square > picture, which I've tried to crop to an oval with feathered edges. You can't actually crop an image to anything other than a rectangle - all the common bitmp image formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc) only support rectangular images. The way you make an oval image is to add transparency and make the "corners" transparent. > In GIMP the square part is red, the oval picture has a dotted moving > line. The dotted moving line is probably an active selection - it's not part of the image. > When I "export as" to use the picture in Print Shop 4, I do get a > PNG file but the square is black with a white oval where the picture > should be. I don't understand what exactly transparency is used for, > but it wouldn't seem like I need it. If you want to get an oval picture you need transparency. So, the steps are, (1) open the square image (2) open the Layers dialogue (control-l, that is,lower-case L) (3) right-click on the backgroudn layer and Add Alpha Channel (4) use the oval/ellipse tool (you can press "e" to get it) to select the oval shape. (5) use select->feather to feather the edges of the oval selection (6) invert the eslection (select->invert) now you have the "corners" of the square selected. (7) cut (control-x) Now yo ushould see a checker-board in the corners (8) file->export as PNG DO NOT USE JPEG as it does not support transparent pixels Hope this helps. slave ankh (liam) -- Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. Click here to have the slave beaten. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
