Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:42:13AM +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Team: > > I'm way out of my league here, so if anyone with some graphics skills would > like to help, I'd really appreciate it. > > I use the gimp to do basic manipulations on jpeg and photoshop files to produce > basic graphics for a website. > > I've been given copies of the most recent "original art" at a set of .ai > files (Adobe Illustrator). My gimp didn't know how to read them natively. > Is there a plug-in? An alternative package? Even if I just crop, scale, > and convert to .jpeg or .gif I'll be fine . . . > > Secondly, I have a .jpeg of a logo that's on a white background. I need > to make the background transparent. Any idea how? hello, im not sure about the illustrator stuff [think there would be problems with compatability with gimp as illustrator is essentially a vector image generator and gimp a raster based image editor/gen/whatever. guesscthere are various raster2vector and vice versa thingies]
anyway... in gimp, to remove the white background, you want to make sure the image has an alpha layer [right click on image, layers->add alpha layer] then use the 'select contiguous regions' tool [looks like a magic wand in the tool box] to select the background. Once the background is selected simply do ctrl-k to clear [assuming you havent messed around with they kbd-shorts. hope that helsp! hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
