Re: Create a transparent area in photo and add from the backside

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:26:59 -0700, Postman Delivers wrote:

> I have a photo, where one of the individuals has their eyes closed
(photo
> A), 
> 
>  have another photo taken several seconds later where that individual
has
> their eyes open, but someone else has made a face (photo B).
<snip>
> 
> For one reason I can not fathom how to accomplish this feat... Might
there
> be an on-line tutorial for this so I can have some visual feed back?
> 
This one might help - it is not on-line, you have to download the video
but
it does go into some detail.
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-046-getting-rid-of-people/

> Similarly I would also like to cut out letters lower ****tion of this
photo,
> and move a busy pattered style imaged to the backside that would appear
> have fancy lettering showing through the transparency...
> 
For the cutting out part you could use the foreground select tool. There
is a how-to here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2540655610648907719
and in the gimp docs
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html

Duplicate the background to a layer so that there is some transparency for
a pattern on a lower layer to show through.



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rich