How to add a solid background to an image thats transparent

[jford11609]

(06-14-2018, 03:20 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

• Do a fuzzy-select on the background: click in one corner of the backrground then shift-click in the other corners (and inside the chain ring) to add them to selection.
  
• Select>Grow by two pixels, then Select>Invert
  
• Add a new layer, filled with transparency
  
• Bucket fill the selection on that layer with the required color. This shoul dgive you the silhouette of the watch
  
• Move that layer below the watch layer (drag it down in the Layer list, or Layer>Stack>Lower layer
  

Btw, not very hard to have a different color for the dial:

Thanks so much! This worked out perfect for me!