[lug] transparent images

[Hugh Brown]

Our own Michael Hammel wrote a book on the gimp that is quite good.

What I do when I am going for transparent, is open up the image.  Get the
layers and channels dialog up.  duplicate the layer, select the duplicate
layer, right click on the layer and choose add layer mask and default to
full opacity.  I click on the duplicate image (not the white box next to it
which is the mask).  Edit-Select by color click on the background color.
Then I click on the mask in the layer dialog, and paint bucket dump black on the
selection.  Then I apply the mask, delete the background layer and save the
image out, flattening where necessary.

If that doesn't make sense, I won't be surprised.

FWIW,

Hugh

"Kenneth D. Weinert"
> 
> At 11:11 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >I use gimp and layer masks (learned from the Graphics Muse himself, okay,
> >actually it was from his website and his book)
> >
> >Hugh
> 
> Well, I have discovered that I am still as graphically challenged as I have 
> been in the past. I open the gimp and immediately feel as if I'm back 
> playing Adventure - "You are lost in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
> 
> It's not the gimp - I can easily replicate that behaviour in any graphics 
> package you'd care to name. I don't like that series of "dummy" books, but 
> for me to do graphics stuff I'd need a book with some sort of exponent on 
> the word dummies :)
> 
> I was using a web service to get some titles made for a page at work and 
> was hoping I could find some filter I could run them through without me 
> having to actually try to edit the image.
> 
> Thanks for all the feedback, I'll try to look for a step-by-step tutorial, 
> a different web service, or make the page background white :)