[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
Replying to all at once here: It is easy to remove the white background in the image. Right click the image, then select Layer - Transparency - Colour to Alpha... then click OK. . Kevin. GimpDummy: Thanks Kevin that worked too. I am looking at the option to colourfy. Do you

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
Well I have succeeded in removing white or background colours, but that still means that I see the image with those ugly charcoal and black squares underneath. More importantly, when I create a nice light turquoise layer and paste the image on there, the nice light turquoise colour

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Owen
Your email is formatted strangely. Hard to read. I think this is a good reason to do levels first. Alternatively change the mode to indexed and 2 levels. Then change it back to rgb -- Owen ___ gimp-user-list mailing list

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
There is a new development which is more easily explained here on this screenshot: http://www.divshare.com/download/16734472-6d9 This is the actual card size and appearance that I would be happy with: http://www.divshare.com/download/16727868-e64 but for some weird reason Vistaprint's

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM, gerard82 wrote: In 2.6 you can click Use color from gradient. This has gone from 2.7.x! Moved, not gone. Create a new paint dynamics definition, map Color to Fade, in brush settings choose a gradient. Then try it on canvas :) Alexandre Prokoudine

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Owen
There is a new development which is more easily explained here on this screenshot: http://www.divshare.com/download/16734472-6d9 This is the actual card size and appearance that I would be happy with: http://www.divshare.com/download/16727868-e64 but for some weird reason Vistaprint's