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desperately need help! - kelloggs - 03-24-2022
hello everyone, I'm a newb at gimp and
have no clue what I'm doing!
I’ve been trying to crop a picture I have of my little ones feet and handprints to
make a collage round a poem in libre office.
I managed to crop the handprints without changing their size, and set alpha then exported to PNG which took me an age to figure out! but when I open the image it has a big white background the size of A4.
I’ve tried cropping to selection/content but then this changes my handprint size. I’m new to all this and would love some advice on what I’m doing wrong!
RE: desperately need help! - rich2005 - 03-24-2022
Quote:...I managed to crop the handprints without changing their size, and set alpha then exported to PNG which took me an age to figure out! but when I open the image it has a big white background the size of A4....
Gimp is a raster (bitmap) editor that works in pixels. You do not say how you got the image but even a mobile phone has a large pixel size these days.
For LibreOffice you can scale the image Image -> Scale Image down to a smaller size. However LibreOffice (LO) will use a setting "Print Resolution" when it imports an image. I recommend using that. Set a size in Image -> Print Size The image is not scaled in any way, just the way it is displayed in LO. It is still possible to re-size in LO using the image settings.
Your background removal sounds a bit dubious
but not easy to comment without the actual image.Those hints here in a video, duration 4 and a half minutes. https://youtu.be/kWOb5uKXJTk
RE: desperately need help! - kelloggs - 03-24-2022
(03-24-2022, 04:31 PM)rich2005 Wrote:Quote:...I managed to crop the handprints without changing their size, and set alpha then exported to PNG which took me an age to figure out! but when I open the image it has a big white background the size of A4....
Gimp is a raster (bitmap) editor that works in pixels. You do not say how you got the image but even a mobile phone has a large pixel size these days.
For LibreOffice you can scale the image Image -> Scale Image down to a smaller size. However LibreOffice (LO) will use a setting "Print Resolution" when it imports an image. I recommend using that. Set a size in Image -> Print Size The image is not scaled in any way, just the way it is displayed in LO. It is still possible to re-size in LO using the image settings.
Your background removal sounds a bit dubious
Those hints here in a video, duration 4 and a half minutes. https://youtu.be/kWOb5uKXJTk
not sure what I did 9n first reply lol
thanks for your reply.
the images are from a scanned copy of my firstborns hand and footprints made with inkless wipes.
I might have to just print each one separately instead and scan again to try and do it a different way as i didn't want to have to scale as it's got to be exact size.
I'll have a look at the video.
I'm sure there's a way in gimp to do the collage but I've not got the hang of it all yet lol and I was hoping for a quick fix so I can get my prints in a frame. I'll keep trying to suss it out, thank you
ps I will add a picture to show what's happening once kids are in bed, I'm not that great at explaining lol
RE: desperately need help! - zeuspaul - 03-24-2022
Not a conventional way. I have been confused with the many crop options. For a basic crop I resize the canvas to the crop dimensions I want. The measure tool can help to determine the wanted crop dimensions. Then I reposition (move) the layer to fit the crop I want and then export the image to jpg or png.
If I want to make a collage I open as layers all of the images for the collage then move them into position and then merge the layers. Individual layers can be scaled for a better fit.
RE: desperately need help! - kelloggs - 03-26-2022
that sounds like a better option, I'll give that a try. thank you