Need help cropping an image for a header in Gimp

[Maghdalena]

(10-18-2018, 06:11 AM)Blighty Wrote: I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you are wanting to do. There are 2 images, which one are you wanting to crop? Are you wanting something like the image below, or something different?

Actually, yes. This is exactly what I'm going for(the image above. So how does a newbie at Gimp do this? I assume the healing tool is involved here or is that something else? I'm just totally new at Gimp and have spatial relationship issues, so please bear with me. Some ADHD here. So how do I do it in Gimp to get the image as you got it? Step by step would help. I'm taking a course in Gimp at Udemy, but I'm just getting started, so anything would help. This is exactly the look I want, though!

Thanks, Blighty!

Sincerely yours,
Katherine "Maghdalena" Logan

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(10-18-2018, 08:34 AM)rich2005 Wrote: @ Maghdalena

I hope that this is not just a bit of covert advertising

First, you need to really determine the size of the hero-small-free banner. Is it 1920 wide or 1024 wide? Small would indicate 1024 but maybe you actually need 1920. You should work a larger size, better to eventually scale down than scale up.

Then image format, does not matter while you are editing, always save your work as a Gimp .xcf file until finally exporting as a png or jpeg.

The hero banner is a jpeg, your replacement is a png.

Using your png banner. It does not have an alpha channel (transparency) first thing to do is add one Layer -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel

Then, as with Blighty comment, what do you need. Something like this?



To get a good curve for cutting out the left side, I created a path then path to selection. With the white background it looks as a jpeg which does not support transparency.

I will attach the gimp .xcf.gx file so you can have a look at the path. Next question might be, regardless of shape, do you want a hard edge or a fade out? Various thing you can do, but first find out the correct size.

Rich,

As far as I know, no covert advertising here. I'm just starting to work from the Template, so it's nowhere near ready to market, covert or otherwise, lol!   

Someone at a Photoshop Elements showed this one too, and while I like the idea, it didn't work too well when I tried to put it in. So, I'm looking for something more like Blighty has in mind.

I agree what you said about sizes. I'm thinking that what I need is the larger size, that is 1920 px wide. 

As far as the alpha channel... Huh?    I didn't even know you could add a transparancy layer/alpha channel. At first I wasn't even sure what it was let alone how to put it in. And yep, it's a jpeg, so no transparancy. 

As I was saying it looked good on paper, but it when I tried it in Photoshop Elements, and put it in, replacing the image that was originally there, the overlay in Elementor went over it and the page title "About Us" ran into the "Victory begins with Confidence" tagline, so that didn't work so well. 

   

It was a real shame, because I really liked it, so I"m going with Blighty's idea, which was what I wanted in the first place. Thanks though. At least I know what an "Alpha Channel" is, now! 

Best wishes.

Katherine "Maghdalena" Logan