: Change background color in Gimp I am as newbie in Gimp as in graphic design. For my first learning task I tried to change background color as in tutorial, but I think, I took rather challenging
I am as newbie in Gimp as in graphic design. For my first learning task I tried to change background color as in tutorial, but I think, I took rather challenging picture to do that. The picture i took is here:
When i used 'Color to alpha' on background color, shirt also disappeared. Furthermore, when I put new background layer (this case blue), my gut turned to smurf as blue from background layout shines through front layout.
I'd like to get this proper and learn how to make my guy on blue background. Can you help me, how should I do that?
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The solution is easy, do a selection so that the color-to-alpha only applies where it matters: the background and the edge pixels of the outline.
On a clean picture, that's wand-select the background (regular threshold) which won't select the outline (it will usually stop one pixel before) and then Select>Grow by two pixels to include the border pixels.
The problem with your picture is not the white shirt but all the JPEG compression artifacts that will:
possibly prevent correct selection of the background with the wand-select (may require careful adjustment of the threshold)
make the background not completely white, and therefore not completely transparent after the Color2Alpha, but this can be fixed by using Curves on a layer mask.
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