Okay, so here's what I'm doing: I'm trying to take a picture I have of myself, isolate myself from my room, and insert myself into all kinds of wacky other scenarios. Using Foreground Select, I got a great cut of myself from the original image, and pasted it into a new blank image with a transparent background so that I can paste it into any image I want. However, if I paste that cut of myself into another image, I look like a paper cutout placed onto a background; it doesn't look like I'm really there. Doing some research on the ol' interwebs, "feathering" the image of myself seems to be the most popular way to do this.
Here's where I'm having trouble: if I feather myself against the transparent background, it... does nothing, because it's both transparent and only a single color anyway (I'm using bright green since it doesn't show up anywhere in the cut of myself). So, obviously, I thought to paste myself into the new image first, then feather the cut of myself. And indeed, when I'm pasted inside of an image, the cut of myself is still selected (until I anchor it). However, at this point, I am not allowed to feather that unanchored image of myself when its pasted to the new image. I can anchor it, sure, but then my selection is immediately lost, and any attempt at re-selecting myself with the foreground tool just results in an inaccurate cut, making the feathering go wonky.
So... how can I feather an image that has been pasted to a different image, but not anchored? Or, does someone have an entirely different way for me to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Befuddled for sure. Just learning (?) Gimp.
I have a simple 1000x1000 px image with a ring in it touching each edge.
The background is transparent. This is great. I use this as a basis for making icons by putting an image inside the ring and saving it as a png.
I also change the color of the icon with a simple flood fill.
Currently the entire background is transparent, which works, but what it want is for the 4 corner "pies" to be 100% transparent so it appears as a circle, but I want the area inside the ring to be 30%, so when I use it in a web page it shows some of the background through it, but the corners are completely invisible.
I have tried watching videos, reading, etc. but I have to say the whole layer thing stumps me. If there is a video, website, or actual instructions that someone can recommend, I would really appreciate it!
I've been using gimp for a few years, most of my prior experience was with Windows 7. I managed to install Python and several plug-ins dependent upon it,..with good results. One of those was resynthesizer.
None of that is part of the problem now.
About a year ago I started using a live distribution of Debian called "knoppix", installed it onto a flashdrive .....really have liked it, I got the DVD version which includes a generous software bundle, with one of those items being gimp 2.10.8 .
Recently I decided to try and add a few plugins to the gimp that I use under knoppix. So, in reading here I saw where rich2005 had put up for download for someone else a directrory named resynth-linux containing two *.py files, and two other files named resynthesizer and resynthesizer_gui
So, I down loaded those files, found the directories specified in gimp edit/preferences/folders/plug-ins and made sure that the specified locations had those files copied into them.
When I started Gimp, there was no change in either of the Filters/Enhance or the Filters/Map menus
Wondering if I had Python support installed, I ran python --version and got "Python 2.7.16" and when running python3 --version I got back "Python 3.7.3"
So far as you know, should that support the plugins that I am trying to use?
Out of curiosity, I went digging and noticed in the directory usr/lib/ were subdirectories "python2.5", "python2.6", python2.7", "Python3", "Python3.7"
Out of those,the contents of "3.7" and "2.7" had many common elements, such as sub directories with common names.....while the other "python*.*" directories differed somewhat. The " python3 and python2.6 directories both had subdirectories named "dist-packages"(only that one subdirectory in either), but the contents of each differed significantly from the other .... while the remaining "python2.5" directory had almost nothing in it. I'm guessing the oddballs contain legacy support for the generous software bundle that came along with the OS?
I appreciate that the last 2 paragraphs might amount to nothing, but just wanted to include them out of an abundance of caution that I might otherwise be leaving out info you might have a use for in determining where I went wrong.
On the attached image, how do I introduce a gradual transition from left to right from BW to colour? I don't know GIMP very well...
I have v 2.10 on Win10.
Thanks!
How? Seems like something that should be straight forward.
Answering my own question here.
mask -> active layer
right click menu -> Mask to Selection
delete mask layer
image -> active layer
fill selection with key color
colors -> color to alpha [select key color]
file -> export as png
Is there a way to do this directly, without the step using color to alpha?
It would be nice if it could all be accomplished in one step.
No offence, but other forum software such as this is super outdated and clunky... is there a Discourse forum for GIMP? I can't seem to find one via Google
First things first... how to I attach an image? I'm used to Discourse forums where you can just paste an image. I get an error if I try that here saying the POST received too much data...
Hi,
It's been a long time since I've tried to do this in Photoshop, and now in Gimp I'm even less competent!
I have this photo below that I want to replace the text in with a more appropriate one (Comic Sans MS, the worst font ever made).
How can I cover over the original text in the photo, while still keeping the texture of the label and the colour variations intact?
If I open a .xcf, jpg or png and change the resolution in the Scale Image or Print Image dialogs, then export again to jpg or png, when I reopen the new file, the resolution has reverted to what it was (e.g. 72). what could be causing this?
