[Gimp-user] Removing Backgrounds in Digital photos

2007-08-09 Thread mkdir2
Hello, I'm new too Gimp please don't shoot me for asking this question. I'm looking for an easy way to process about 20 pictures I shot with my DSLR. What I want to do is remove the background and only preserve the object in front. Is there anything in Gimp to do what KnockOut from corel does?

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

[Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

2006-04-24 Thread C. DeBerry
Hello, I'm a fledgling gimp user. 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. I have it in .tif, .gif, and .jpg formats. I know I can't do itin .jpg. Any help is

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/backgrounds.

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