Now then since we are now connected, what we’re gonna do next is we want to go over here to our layers and then right-click and we want to go all the way down to “Add Alpha Channel”. Now we’ve got the two circles interconnecting and it looks like an infinity symbol, then click your left mouse button and you are connected. Right there you got the circle with the line through it. You wanna complete your outline here and to do that hold your control button down and you’ll see where you’ve got the two circles. You just hit your control + Z button and go back until it’s at a good spot and then do it over again. That’s a mistake and you just wanna go back and correct that because you can’t just go over here and hold your mouse and squeeze it in. And you’ll see that this here is gonna show up here in a second. Let’s get this down here and just continue on down the line and you can probably see now why I chose this particular item for this video because again it’s mostly straight lines and you don’t want to spend all day watching me do this. Since I am dealing mostly with straight lines here, oh and if you screw up something like this here or like that, control button on your keyboard, letter Z and just keep it the letter Z until you get back up a good spot. What I’m doing here is I’m just clicking my left mouse button to connect the dots. And the more details that you got to deal with use less space between your clicking. We wanna be in Design mode and let’s go and start with the top here just for the sake of argument. And now then we want the Paths Tool, click on that. But for the sake of this video, we’re gonna go with four. The more detailed you’re gonna be able to get. And this is what you would wanna do when you’re dealing with the details such as somebody’s strands of hair, or their fingers, or like with that image of the two people holding the dollar bills. Let’s bring this a little bit larger than life so that way you can see most of the pixels and we can go to 800 to see even more. We’re gonna toss the trash so it’s not there anymore. Now then, right now we are at a hundred percent so to make this easier for us to see the details in the lines here, in the outline because what we wanna do is we’re gonna cut this white background out. Let’s go ahead and get this guy down here and get our work space up here. It’s floating around up here so let’s go and anchor this to the new layer we already created by right-clicking, “Anchor Layer”, and just close the eyeball so it will go bye-bye. We want this to blend in naturally with the blue background. Again this is why we do not want this white background. I wanna create a new layer here by clicking on this and let’s make this 150 by 150 which is about the same size as the adobe icon and turn in my clipboard so I should just be able to paste. I’m gonna hold my control button down and then click on the C to copy this on my clipboard. So now what we wanna do is we want to put this guy here right in here. Now over here we’ve got our Layers Dialog box and that’s this guy right here. We’re gonna change it out here in a second to blue. Say if it were about 700 pixels wide, 150 in height, and go to Advanced Options. Let me open up something that might resemble a header. And again, the same technique can be used just with this one it won’t take so long whereas with the other one you wanna take your time. Whereas with the people, you’ve got the head, you’ve got the hair, you’ve got the fingers, you’ve got the dollar bills, and so on. I’m gonna use this as example because, well, frankly there’s square lines. Get rid of this box here.Īnd we’ve got this icon for Adobe PDF and we have this icon for Adobe PDF transparency. Since this can be rather intricate and a little time-consuming, I can explain this the same technique in detail by showing you something a little bit easier to deal with. So whatever you want to call it, hopefully this will be the end-result. Now some folks call this rendering, some folks call it transparency, I call it removing the white background. So in this video I’m gonna show you how you can effectively remove this white background and let me show you what the end-result would look like. For example, in this case we’ve got a software box E-Cover here and this just would not look like the same if it had this white background in there. You can do the same technique to remove that particular item or individual from that picture. Or for that matter, let’s say we’ve got a picture from a wedding for example that has something or someone in the picture that you don’t want in the picture. Now in this video, I’m gonna show you how you can prepare your images that have this white background for EBook covers, or software box E-covers, and so on. Hello and welcome to this video on the GIMP.
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