(05-29-2022, 05:27 AM)sallyanne Wrote: First you need to make sure your image has an alpha channel. Then after your selection, invert selection and delete. Depending on what you are doing you may want to feather your selection a little first as well.

You will still have a rectangular canvas but the ouside of your selection should be transparent now. Gimp doesn't do other than square or rectangle. Can be made to look otherwise though
Then if you want a black line around your pencil go selection to path - go back to the selection menu and turn off selection then - stroke path  - make sure your foreground color is the colour you want to stroke.
Oh I forgot, if you want a transparent background after, do not export as a jpg. Export as a png.

(05-29-2022, 09:23 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: "Crop" in Gimp means cutting the image into a rectangle, so in your case, "Crop to selection" takes the smallest rectangle that contains your selection and crops the image to it.

To extract the pencil, two ways:

1) Delete the rest: Layer > Transparency > Add alpha channel (if not done already), Select > Invert (so that you select the background) and Edit > Clear to delete the background.
2) Copy to another layer: Edit > Copy, Edit > Paste, and Layer > To new layer (Ctr-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Shift-N)

Note that either method won't give a truly satisfactory result (there will be a halo with the old background). But we will come to this later.

(06-15-2022, 02:40 PM)sallyanne Wrote: Open your image of a smiley face - File > Open > Browse for your image and open.
Open as layers one at a time -
File > Open as layers - each picture you want to put on top
Then while each layer is selected (you can only select one at a time) move them to the position you want.
If your layers are too large or too small you can scale them to size - either by using the scale tool or going to layer > scale layer.

Quote:How do I put one image onto another? I need to put a pencil, a paintbrush, a set of music notes, and letters and numbers in certain specific places on the big smiley face I've drawn and saved. Also: how do I fine-tune the size of these images as I place them on the smiley face?....snip.....
....The scale tool won't let me fine-tune the scale of my second layer. Also, when I try to move my second layer as a floating layer, I can only see it within a rectangle. .....snip....
.... When I enlarge the image I'm placing on my base layer, IT gets bigger but the rectangle in which I can view it (as a separate second layer) does not. Maybe this is just a version 2.8.22 issue?