: Copying & Pasting inverted image in GIMP I have a basic image that is black on a white background. I simply want to invert the image, take the now white portion and paste it on another
I have a basic image that is black on a white background. I simply want to invert the image, take the now white portion and paste it on another image in GIMP. I am having no luck.
Within GIMP, I open that bird and I also open my background to be pasted upon.
On the bird, I click on Colors/Invert and now the portion I want to keep is white.
Now, I don't know what to do. I've tried various layers/masks but don't really understand and cannot seem to get just the white portion on to my second image. I can cut and paste the whole thing but I don't want the black background. I think what I want is just the transparency or whatever the white portion is.
Is there a simple way to do this? Any clear-cut steps?
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Alternatively - you can just use the Select by color tool (just next to the magic wand on the tool box) - and click on any white part of the image. This will select the white areas - then, just copy and paste on the target image.
The "color to alpha" as @PieBie put it, is more precise, and better to remove a solid background when you want to keep a lot of other colors - but for a simpler case like this, the select by color can easily pick all you want to carry to over.
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