Something to note is that in “ Mac“, instead of pressing ” Del” users will click on “ Edit” and then from the menu that appears click on “Cut” to remove background colors and render it transparent. Use that to zoom in real close to be able to effectively render the whole background or a selected part transparent. At the right pane of the Gimp window, you’ll find the zoom icon. You will usually need to zoom in to make minor edits especially with backgrounds of different colors. Users will have to select the different colors one by one, making sure to avoid the image itself and other different background colors.įollow the process of pressing “ Del” when you’ve managed to select a sizable part of the background color and repeat the same process until all the background colors are transparent. Quite easy right? Well, yes in theory it is, as long as you follow the procedure.įor backgrounds with different colors, it is a bit more tedious than a background with just one color. With a background of just one solid color, all you have to do is select a part of the background and all of the backgrounds will be selected as long as it’s the same color.Ī dotted line will appear around the selected parts and when you press the “Del” the entire background selected will become transparent. The easy option is for users working with images with a background that has just one color. When you’ve clicked on “ Fuzzy Select“, you’re ready to now work on the image. This will also take you to another drop-down menu where you’ll look for “ Fuzzy Select“. We will go through another drop-down menu session but much shorter than before.Ĭlicking on “ Tools” will reveal a drop-down menu, look for “ Selection Tools” on the drop-down menu, and click on it. After that, go back to the top of the screen where Gimp icons are situated and look for the “ Tools” option. When the drop-down menu appears, look for “ Add Alpha Channel” and click on it. Look for “ Transparency” which after clicking on it also will reveal a drop-down menu. When you locate the “ Layer” menu and you click on it, a drop-down menu will appear. Here’s where it gets a little bit tricky because there will be quite a bit of drop-down menus to go but if you follow the steps one by one then you should be just fine. The next step after the image is on your screen is to click “ Layer“, a Gimp menu item usually found at the top of the Gimp app. NB:- If asked to convert the image while selecting it, keep the default settings as shown in the image below. Open the image you want to work within Gimp by clicking “ File” in the top left corner of the window, click on “Open” in the drop-down menu that follows and select the image. Gimp usually takes a few moments to get started up especially if you just downloaded it or you’ve not used it in a long while. The first step is downloading the tool Gimp if you don’t already have it. 1.2.1.1 Conclusion Making Images Background Transparent with Gimp I have done quite a bit with GiMP and love it, but you can probably image right now, I did it the HARD way.
Right now, that is beyond me but you two have me wanting to dig into it.
#Gimp transparent background trial#
I only do what I can / know till I find a better way either by trial or from person kind enough like you with your answer.īlighty probably has the better method like you are saying to keep more than one layer and add more layers. I am mainly a programmer at base and can do "programmer" art. I have a BS in Eng Tech, A+ and IC3 Cert and there is so much that you could probably fill a thimble with what I do know. I am a high school instructor that does Gimp, Blender, HTML, PHP, JS, CSS, C / C++, MySQL, Computer H&S, Networking, text/presentation/spreadsheets. Add more layers if you need to paint elsewhere.
Quote:But why do you need to do this? It is usually better to keep layers as a rather tight fit on their contents. Thanks Ofnuts, layer -> layer to image size did it perfectly.
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