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How to add a solid background to an image thats transparent
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06-14-2018, 02:49 PM
[Image: search?q=pocket+watch+vector&source=lnms...bTf1WBPuM:]I have an image of a clock and the background of the clock is transparent. Im wanting to add a solid background to it without making the whole canvas that solid color (around the clock). Its a pretty intricate clock with lots of little spaces so it would take me forever to fill it with the bucket. I know there has to be an easier way to do this. Please help! I posted a link to something similar im working with. 
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06-14-2018, 03:20 PM (This post was last modified: 06-14-2018, 03:31 PM by Ofnuts.)
  • 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:

   
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06-14-2018, 04:04 PM
Are you really using WinXP ?

Ofnuts method is the most efficient but another way using the selection tools. All good practice.

[Image: Dns8Rou.jpg]

This is using Gimp 2.10 but Gimp 2.8 much the same. You might get Gimp 2.8 installed in XP Wink

Three and a half minute video : https://youtu.be/CcFD0tGiC-A
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06-14-2018, 04:19 PM
(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!
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