03-11-2018, 10:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2018, 10:32 AM by Espermaschine.)
(03-11-2018, 12:46 AM)chrisj Wrote: Can I ask, what is the best way to change to another color other than black ?
You could also tackle the problem from another angle. All these icons were most likely made in a vector program. You can probably find a lot of them in svg format.
Changing the colour of a vector file is a lot easier, but you must use a vector program like Inkscape instead of Gimp.
It also solves your scaling problems, because a vector can be scaled indefinitely and looks better exported at small scale.
A quick search turned up these two examples:
A lighbulb vector:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...bulb-1.svg
A website with lots of free icon vectors:
https://iconmonstr.com/
(03-10-2018, 11:12 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: 1) Select all background with the Fuzzy-select () tool. Shift-click any isolated areas such as loops in letters to add them
2) Select>Grow by 2px so that the selection covers the edge pixels of the subject (on a really clean image 1px is enough)
3) Colors>Color to alpha and remove the white (you can also instead bucket-fill the layer with white, if you set the bucket-fill too to Color erase mode.
why not link to the excellent script you wrote for that method ?
ofn-erase-background
get it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-to...s/scripts/