Gimp signature help!

Question

Ok so i am trying to learn how to make good siggys.

Paste so i went here:

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/full-signature-tutorial-t5880.html

and i got all the way up to the 2nd step.

how do you get the white out of there

so it is just the koops and the cool background

and not the white

without using the eraser tool?

Answer 1

The koops has to has a alpha channel first, to add alpha channel, go to menu above koops, layer, transparency, add alpha channel.

Then use the magic wand (fuzzy select) to click the white area, since the white area is flat one color without variation in saturation, hue or lighting different is once is selected, then invert the selection it will be just the koops selected and do the cut(ctrl+x)/copy(ctrl+c) and "paste into" to the cool background.

When the koops is pasted to the cool background, in the layer  dialog (ctrl+L), the koops is a floating selection, while the floating selection is selected, on the layer dialog, click the new layer button, choose transparent, then a new layer with koops there but no background will be on top of the layer of the cool background.

Note: In case the white background is not that pure, you might need to adjust the threshold of the magic wand so that once click on the white, all white will be selected.