Alan German

Ottawa PC Users’ Group

GIMP – Simple & Complex

https://www.gimp.org

Simple Edit - Image Cropping

Rectangle Select

Options available

For the selected tool

Not So Simple

Advanced

Image Editing

Task – Use a version of this virus graphic

for a road-safety newsletter by

making it into a “traffic sign”

Original image captured

from the CDC’s web site

Circle and line drawn

individually and grouped

as a single image

(PowerPoint)

Blank sign captured

From clker.com

(free clip art)

Cut and paste the virus

image into the sign

But, I don’t want the

white background!

Mark individual points

around the contour?

1. Open your image

2. Select the area you want to make transparent

using an appropriate selection tool

1. Open your image

2. Select the area you want to make transparent

using an appropriate selection tool

Magic wand/Fuzzy select

Click in the region you want selected.

3. Select Layer – Transparency –

Add Alpha Channel

4. Select Edit – Clear (make selection transparent)

5. Save the file – Use Export As…

Original image captured

from the CDC’s web site

Version created in GIMP

(with transparent background)

Cut and paste images

onto blank sign

Voilà!

https://www.gimp.org