Monday, June 25, 2012

Changing Background Color of an Image in GIMP

Recently I needed to use a simple picture in my presentation. However, the picture had its own background color which was annoying for the presentation template. What I did is the following:
1. I opened the picture in GIMP.
2. There is a nice set of selection tools in GIMP. I used scissor selection tool to choose the relevant parts of my picture.
3. Pasted the selected tool to a new file without background color...

That is it. There is a nice tutorial about the subject here: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html