TUTORIAL #2
Have an annoying background on your image?
•How to make your photo have a transparent background
•In my example I will use this silhouette of a tree.
•Lets say you want to use this silhouette in another photo but it has this annoying white background.
•Open your photo in GIMP, once your photo is open in GIMP right click on that photo’s layer. Look for “add alpha channel”.
•Once you have done that now click on the“fuzzy select tool” in the tool box.
•Click on your image with the fuzzy select tool. You will see lines appear on your image, adjust your threshold until the
lines are outlining what you wish to get rid of. In my case that will be all the white behind the tree.
•Once you get what you want selected: Right click on your image, go to “edit” and “cut” you will see that the background has disappeared.
•If the opposite part of you image disappears, then undo the cut and right click and “select” in the menu bar and click "invert" within the "select menu". This will select the opposite, and then you can "cut" out what you wanted to.
•If your image still has a little bit of white background you can go keep trying to "fuzzy select" and changing the threshold or you can go in by hand to get rid of it by using any other of the select tools. Then click "select" in the menu bar, then "none" within the "select menu". You image is now ready to be saved and used.
•How to make your photo have a transparent background
•In my example I will use this silhouette of a tree.
•Lets say you want to use this silhouette in another photo but it has this annoying white background.
•Open your photo in GIMP, once your photo is open in GIMP right click on that photo’s layer. Look for “add alpha channel”.
•Once you have done that now click on the“fuzzy select tool” in the tool box.
•Click on your image with the fuzzy select tool. You will see lines appear on your image, adjust your threshold until the
lines are outlining what you wish to get rid of. In my case that will be all the white behind the tree.
•Once you get what you want selected: Right click on your image, go to “edit” and “cut” you will see that the background has disappeared.
•If the opposite part of you image disappears, then undo the cut and right click and “select” in the menu bar and click "invert" within the "select menu". This will select the opposite, and then you can "cut" out what you wanted to.
•If your image still has a little bit of white background you can go keep trying to "fuzzy select" and changing the threshold or you can go in by hand to get rid of it by using any other of the select tools. Then click "select" in the menu bar, then "none" within the "select menu". You image is now ready to be saved and used.