[Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

Hello all, My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me please! Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? The document is scanned via xsane so I can have i

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

Hi Ed, Ed wrote: > Hello all, > My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me > please! > > Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand > written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? > > The document is s

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

P.S.: To keep the transparency, you should finally save the text either as TIFF, PNG, or XCF. JPEG doesn't support transparency. Claus ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Realistic textures

Hi all, as a good alternative to the commonly used 'tiling' textures, there's a great plug-in for the Gimp, written by Paul Harrison . This creates so-called 'near-regular' textures. For more on this, please see Textu

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:39, Claus Cyrny wrote: > 6. The last step would be 'Layer > Colors Apply Layer Mask...'. This > will remove the > background from the scan, leaving only the text Hello Claus, Many thanks for your help... I got as far as point '6' but I can't seem to find any variant o

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

On 3/8/07, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:39, Claus Cyrny wrote: > > 6. The last step would be 'Layer > Colors Apply Layer Mask...'. This > > will remove the > > background from the scan, leaving only the text > > Hello Claus, > Many thanks for your help... I got as fa

[Gimp-user] Editing image comment

Hi all, How can I edit an image comment in The Gimp ? I can display it in the Info window but haven't found a way to edit it. Even not in the last user manual ... Thanks & kind regards, Stephan. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkel