Get rid of pesky backgrounds with the GIMP    Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 08:26 PM EDT Contributed by: glosser The NewsForge offers this tutorial on the GIMP. Putting your CEO's mug in an OpenOffice.org Impress slide show is pretty easy -- just call up marketing and get them to email you the appropriate graphics file. But what if you're the one charged with creating that portrait for the marketing department? This article will guide you through the process of eliminating a background from a graphics file, leaving just the object you want. You don't have to be professional photographer or graphics artist to learn this. All you need is a digital camera and the GIMP. There are a couple of ways to erase bit-mapped image backgrounds while leaving only the desired object: * You can erase the background using various eraser tools. * You can mask just the parts you want to keep and subtract the rest. * You can combine these two, to speed up the process. Using the eraser tools Full tutorial   [ Views: 1478 ]

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