Re: [Gimp-user] Potential New User Questions

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On 11/25/2013 05:33 PM, Beau & Belle Invitations wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I apoligize in advance for my probably very stupid and laughable questions.
>   I am not very computer literate!
>
> I have a very small business and cannot justify purchasing adobe photoshop
> or any of their products.  I make wedding invitations and different
> greeting cards and would like to start using some digital graphics.  I
> wouldn't be designing the graphics - just using them.
>
> I'm just wondering if GIMP will be able to crop these images for me to use
> (duh right??), but also if I will be able to change the color of these
> graphics.  Most of the graphics I get are in a PNG file and have a
> transparent background.  They are always a solid black color and are very
> simple designs.  All I would want to do is potentially change the solid
> black color to a solid blue color (or whatever color) and probably crop and
> resave the image to use...
>
> Can anyone help me please and let me know if this is possible with GIMP?
>   And try not to laugh at me too hard!

Changing the color in these images is normally very easy. Check the 
"alpha-lock" and paint the whole image, the transparency of the pixels 
will be kept.