__/ [Troy Piggins] on Saturday 03 September 2005 04:02 \__
> * Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [Troy Piggins] on Friday 02 September 2005 06:41 \__
>>
>>> Apologies if I don't use the correct terms - I am a very new user to
>>> gimp.
>>>
>>> I would like to create a banner type logo on my home page, and was
>>> thinking about blending(?) two (or maybe more) photos together. I'd
>>> like a close up, say, of the my head/face on one corner, then that
>>> gets transparent over another background image, say, a landscape of a
>>> beach.
>>
>> "the my head/face" indicates that you felt it was too egoistic and
>> changed the phrasing. *wink*
>
> Hehe. Far from it - you should see my rough head. Too many meat pies :-/
>
>> o Open the face in one window
>>
>> o Open the background in another window
>>
>> o Hover with the mouse over the face, right-click (right-handed mouse
>> assumed)
>>
>> o Layers -> Layers, Channels and Paths (GIMP 1.2.x)
>>
>> o Reduce the opacity value as much as you desire
>>
>> o copy the face image (CTRL+C)
>>
>> o Paste the selection in the background image (CTRL+V)
>
> Thanks. That opacity is a cool thing indeed. I think somewhere in
> between your post here and Joal's followup, I am getting there.
>
> See my followup to Joal - my last paragraph. I think I explained better
> there the end result I want.
>
> Thanks again.
__/ 4 minutes earlier [Tony Piggins] added: \__
> It certainly helped me get started. Just need to figure out how to move
> that pasted selection.
>
> Also, by "blending" I think I meant (in gimp terminology) to use a
> gradient from the pasted selection to the background image. So imagine
> my (handsome :-/ ) face on the left side of image, pasted there as we did
> above, then from the right side of my image there is a gradient from the
> foreground image to the background image. I tried gradient with color
> erase mode and it almost looked like what I wanted, but the foreground
> image didn't completely disappear to nothing over the background.
In that case, you want to apply transparency that varies from left-to-right
or vice versa.
o Take the face image
o Zoom in (tap +) until it fits display (for convenience)
o Make selection of a vertical line (1-pixel wide) in the image
o (*) Change opacity value of the selection
o Move to next vertical line, repeating (*) with a different opacity value
o At the end, copy and paste image onto the background.
I hope the image you are dealing with is small enough to make this
practical. If it is large, come back and I'll come up with something more
sophisticated. *smile*
Hope it helps,
Roy
PS - In that site banner, are you holding a lightsabre by any chance? I
suspect it may not help business, unless you are in showbiz.
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