Hey all,
I feel as if I needed a little dingy and ended up getting some sort of super-tanker!
What is the best way to get to grips with what GIMP has to offer? I'm not a professional photographer or anything like that - I just want to be able to manipulate photos and images for use on my blog.
I also have a more specific question that I'd like to ask.
I'm trying to create a title bar image for use on my blog pages. Nothing fancy, just a rectangle with rounded corners and a gradient colour. The problem I'm having is being able to save just the image (and not the background). I have done some digging and tried to find a solution to this but it didn't work - I added an alpha channel (whatever one of those is!), inverted the selection and pressed delete. This changed the background to the checkered pattern that I was expecting. I then exported the image in png format. All well and good I thought. However, when I open the image it still has a white background! What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Richie
I feel as if I needed a little dingy and ended up getting some sort of super-tanker!
What is the best way to get to grips with what GIMP has to offer? I'm not a professional photographer or anything like that - I just want to be able to manipulate photos and images for use on my blog.
I also have a more specific question that I'd like to ask.
I'm trying to create a title bar image for use on my blog pages. Nothing fancy, just a rectangle with rounded corners and a gradient colour. The problem I'm having is being able to save just the image (and not the background). I have done some digging and tried to find a solution to this but it didn't work - I added an alpha channel (whatever one of those is!), inverted the selection and pressed delete. This changed the background to the checkered pattern that I was expecting. I then exported the image in png format. All well and good I thought. However, when I open the image it still has a white background! What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Richie