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Need help cropping an image for a header in Gimp
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Hi, I'm new here, and to Gimp. I got a new computer and heard about and decided to give Gimp a try. I have Gimp 2.10 installed as well as Photoshop Elements 12.


I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I have a header that I'm trying to put together for a site that has to do with confidence. It's part of the Astra Starter Sites. This is the original header:

   

The image said it’s originally 1920 X 500, but saving the image I got 1024X267. The image has an all-white background with the picture on the far right because there’s a blue overlay with text on the left. This is the image I’m working from:

   

What I want to do is crop the left part out, and just leave the right side with the woman and the text “Victory begins with Confidence” with the gold(It was professionally done by someone at Fiverr), but when I cropped it, this is what I got:

   



Is There a way to crop the smokey grey out and the blue or is there something better that can be done with the upper left corner, like making it the dark blue of the border, or what do you suggest? Did I use the wrong crop tool? I used the “Rule of thirds” cropping tool, and got it as far as I could and as much of the left side out as possible, but I couldn’t get it all. What do I do with that left part because it looks unfinished. Could I just have the rest of it be blue like the dark blue border, or does or copy the color for the rest of the image?  Does anyone have any suggestions or help on how to get rid of the greyish blue at least?

I admit I used Photoshop Elements when I did the first cropping experiment, but I"d like to know how to do it in Gimp, but I've never used it before, so don't know the steps to take to do this. Could someone baby-step me through this, as it's the first time I've used Gimp. Can this actually be done in Gimp?  If so, how? What am I doing wrong, if anything? Well, I am a newbie at Gimp. Wink

I'm using a Hewlett Packard Compaq 6000 Pro with Windows 7 Professional, if that helps

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely yours,

Katherine M. Logan


BTW, it’s the header for the internal images.
The website is https://buildconfidenceeeasily.com/about
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Need help cropping an image for a header in Gimp - by Maghdalena - 10-18-2018, 04:49 AM

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