[jayray]

Hi this is my first post. I usually go to youtube for gimp tips but i dont think they can help me this time. It is difficult to articulate what I need help on, but i will do my best. I will start of by telling you what I'm doing.


step 1) I remove the background of my image with the color to alpha method, isolating the part of the image i want.

step 2) I then use color select tool to select all the transparent area that was left behind from step 1.

step 3) I create a new layer.

step 4) Then I use the bucket fill tool to fill in the area on the 2nd layer that was selected in step 2.

This is where I run into trouble. On some pixels where the color filling meets dotted line area (made by color select tool) the color comes out translucent. I don't want this to happen. I want it to be solid ff00ff (color hex) without the random reductions in opacity.

I'm working with sprites and the emulator i use has ff00ff as transparent. I'm getting random pink color coming out of the edges of my sprites. These little specks of pink should not be appearing in game because it is supposed to be read as transparent. i suspect that these specks coming out are related to these translucent hiccups made in gimp.

This post has been edited by jayray: 31 March 2012 - 09:06 PM

[jayray]

well all i had to do was hold down the delete button for a few seconds after step 2. The rest of steps stayed the same. I thought Id be happy now that i figured it out but I'm not. what a stupid thing to overlook.

[ofnuts]

 jayray, on 31 March 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

well all i had to do was hold down the delete button for a few seconds after step 2. The rest of steps stayed the same. I thought Id be happy now that i figured it out but I'm not. what a stupid thing to overlook.

Wrong way... in fact the good way to to this is to bucket-fill the bottom layer completely, without using selection. The border pixels on the top layer have become partially transparent after the color-to-alpha and will insure a perfect blend. See here form some more explanation: http://gimpforums.co...id=8044#pid8044

This post has been edited by ofnuts: 31 March 2012 - 09:26 PM

[jayray]

 ofnuts, on 31 March 2012 - 09:24 PM, said:

 jayray, on 31 March 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

well all i had to do was hold down the delete button for a few seconds after step 2. The rest of steps stayed the same. I thought Id be happy now that i figured it out but I'm not. what a stupid thing to overlook.

Wrong way... in fact the good way to to this is to bucket-fill the bottom layer completely, without using selection. The border pixels on the top layer have become partially transparent after the color-to-alpha and will insure a perfect blend. See here form some more explanation: http://gimpforums.co...id=8044#pid8044

No. this link you referred me to says this: "how do I get it on a transparent layer with the proper anti-aliasing?" ...That is exactly what i dont want. So FOR ME.. my way was better. This may be useful to someone else though.

[ofnuts]

 jayray, on 04 April 2012 - 08:58 PM, said:

 ofnuts, on 31 March 2012 - 09:24 PM, said:

 jayray, on 31 March 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

well all i had to do was hold down the delete button for a few seconds after step 2. The rest of steps stayed the same. I thought Id be happy now that i figured it out but I'm not. what a stupid thing to overlook.

Wrong way... in fact the good way to to this is to bucket-fill the bottom layer completely, without using selection. The border pixels on the top layer have become partially transparent after the color-to-alpha and will insure a perfect blend. See here form some more explanation: http://gimpforums.co...id=8044#pid8044

No. this link you referred me to says this: "how do I get it on a transparent layer with the proper anti-aliasing?" ...That is exactly what i dont want. So FOR ME.. my way was better. This may be useful to someone else though.

Ah, OK, so you wanted to remove all the anti-aliasing and get a jagged edge? Otherwise use the above method and then merge the two layers.