Ok, what I want to do is turning out to be a little more difficult than usual. I can find plenty of tutorials on making parts of images transparent or semi-transparent. I can work out how to do this from scratch, creating an image. The problem here is I am not creating an image from scratch - I want to take an existing flat image with existing background and remove background and be left with an image (complete with transparent and semi-transparent areas) which I can then save to a PNG or use on any other background I wish.
To illustrate what I want to do, I have made mockup images below. Image 1 shows an image with a black background. I want to remove the black background but leave the image and semi-transparent "rays" intact so they can be placed onto a different background, as in image 2. Note that the "rays" appear over the new background colour. image 1 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/BlackDalek/kbblack.png image 2 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/BlackDalek/kbcolour.png If anyone knows how to achieve this, please ellaborate. Feel free to download and use the above kbblack.png image to explain how to get from image 1 to image 2. Thanks -- BlackDalek (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
