Mon Nov 15 22:36:02 EET 2010
Make picture transperant with the Gimp on Linux
I'm trying to learn some basic design this days as an attempt to fill my huge missing gap of knowledge in graphic processing.I've always been not too good with visual stuff and always been focused on the command line and stuff like that, however since
some time design started being quite interesting thing and I find it quite handy and challenging to learn some basic designing.
I'm not really a Windows guy and thus my Photoshop skills are next to zero. Since The Gimp is the substitute for Photoshop for Linux users and I had a task for one of the websites I'm developing to make some pictures for the website transperant, therefore I had to learn how to make pictures transperant with The Gimp
After some reading online and some experimenting with GIMP it appeared to me it's very easy to actually make pictures transperant with the GIMP.
So I've come with a small article here on how to make image or a picture transperant with Gimp in simple steps in order to help people who are trying to achieve the same easy task:
1. Open Gimp and place your mouse cursor on the picture
Here, Press the 2nd or 3rd mouse button to show menu.
2. Select Layer -> Transperancy -> Alpha to Selection
In that menu select
Select Layer -> Transprerancy ->
Alpha to Selection
3. Use Fuzzy Select Tool and select the picture background
4. From Gimp Window pane main menu choose the Clear option
Edit -> Clear (Delete)
That's all now your picture background should be removed if some parts of the picture still needs to be purged just follow the above step and remove them.
I should say I thought making picture transperant with GIMP would be a more complex task than it really was, quite nice one more step in my development as a designer :)