Nice job, Aandayr! Glad you found the tutorial helpful and I'm looking forward to seeing your future efforts. Your first GIMP graphic definitely smoked my first!

:l:

Art

I cant do it!!! :s: :s: What should I do? Wait on the thing you used to anchor and all that it is the CREATE AND EDIT PATHS thing right?

This tutorial was based on my "Creating and Editing Paths" tutorial. Did you go through that tutorial first as I recommended?

Yeah I did it step by step and I couldnt do it. I dont know why.

Wow thanks FP! I never thought about using paths! (Actually I just started to realize the magic of paths! :w:)
I probably won't use your tut in general 'cause I'm already pretty good in GIMP, but thanks for the idea!

THANK YOU!
I've been using the eraser method and it wasn't really working....

thanx fence
here is just messing around with you tut here is what i cut out

heres is the uncut one


rate up fencepost heheh

Thanks very much for this tut. It helped me save alot of time.

PS: I'm new to the forums but can't post a new topic on the tutorials place. How can I do it?

a great guide for first time GIMPers, like me :w:. It was a great help for creating ptransparenices for a forum that i use that needs loads of them.

Thanks,

Slice

Very nice Tutorial! I'll have to try this when I get some free time on my hands!

Im not sure if this goes here or not, but Im pretty new to gimp, and yes, I did read and understand both of the path tuts. Now that we have that out of the way, my issue:

After I delete the background from the image, and I select copy and paste, it only seems to paste the outline of my render, and the background, but not the actualy picture of the render.

Sorry if this is extremely newbish question beyound measures, but its really starting to make me angry, and we cant have that, now, can we? :w:

You must after pasting the image save it as a new layer.. When you paste it into the image you are working on it is pasted as a floating selection (should look like marching ants, marching around the selection). The cut out will not appear in your new image until you right click the floating selection layer and save it as a new layer. If you select the floating selection layer and double click it you can name it and it will then appear in the layer stack as a new layer.

swmiller6

Thanks FP, this really helped. I previously was using the "magic wand" (fuzzy select) tool, which work well for most images, but some are too blended to use that method. So.. thanks!

When I try to invert it, it just outlines the border but not the image. Anyone know how to fix this?

Once your path is finished you have to convert it to a selection first, which will be around the object where you made the path. Then you have to invert the selection which will move the selection to everything else. It sounds to me like you've just converted the path to a selection, but didn't invert it. Once you get the main selection, then hit Ctrl-I and see if that changes what's selected.

Art

I can't erase the background...
when I click Ctrl-K,there's a Preference box open.
?????

This is a common problem, Rino. Go into your GIMP preferences and change the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-K, to be used for deleting an item. Let me know if you need additional help.

Art

There is no Ctrl-I(Invert) and Ctrl+K for deleting in my Preferences :a:

Hey nice tut, it was very helpful i just had one prpblem... when you invert and then clear the background the image disappears as well not just the background leaving just an outline of where the path was created.
Please help!!?!??!

Sounds to me like both of you may be having the same problem. You can actually assign your own keystrokes in the Gimp preferences section. I'm not sure why some Gimp programs don't have it set up as such, but go in to the preferences and assign Ctrl-I to invert and Ctrl+K to delete and see if that helps.

Otherwise you'll have to do the steps manually through the menus across the top. (ie....Select | Invert)
Let me know.

Art

Clear is already ctrl+k and invert is already ctrl+i
did it manually and it still has the same result

Very interestink.....

Can you do me a favor and post a screenshot of your layer dialog window and the image you're working on? Maybe I can derive a little bit more info. from that......

A

oops sorry i did it wrong ill do it again

This doesnt have the actual path on it, would you like me to do one that has the path on it?

Yes please. Plus try to correct the links to the current images.

Thanks.