[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

[rich2005 <forums gimpusers com>]

> The first time I followed your procedure, I thought it worked exactly
> like your video.  Since then when I have repeated it, I am left with a
> transparent area where the removed area of the letter used to be.  (I
> have just recently learned how to add a layer containing the
> background color and flatten the layers, so this is not a problem.) 
> It appears that your procedure works exactly as in the video when the
> image is from a .JPG file, but when the image is from a .XCF file it
> leaves a transparent area.

> Lloyd

Best of luck with your project

It is all to do with transparency - in Gimp the term is alpha channel.  A jpg
image does not support transparency so when you open a jpg in Gimp, on its own,
there will be no alpha channel until you add one.

Depends on your overall project but looks like somewhere you have added
transparency.

Assuming the logo has been cut out of some other image for use in your project.

Going back a post & easier than the video

Fuzzy select inside the E

Grow the selection by a suitable amount to include the border, looks like it
should about 6 to 8 pix

Cut, kill the selection, paste in, move into position.

It might look like the first attachment.

You can remove the alpha channel Layer -> Transparency -> Remove alpha channel
but there is no guarantee that the 'white' background in the image is 100%
white. If it is 100% white just lose the alpha channel.

Otherwise add a layer under the text and fill that layer with the colour picked
FG color, which you have already know about. second attachment.

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Going back to general comments and many ways to achieve a result. Given the font
er-kurier-1251-bold-italic is available for download. ( do a search )

The really easy way is: Enter the text. Adjust the spacing of the final E using
the on-canvas text dialog.

Use Text-to-Path. Stroke the path on a new layer to give the outline.

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

Attachments:
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/507/original/with-alpha.jpg
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/508/original/with-layer.jpg

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