Re: [Gimp-user] Change background colour with GIMP 2.10.22 [resent]

[Tom <tomdkat comcast net>]

On 3/25/21 7:40 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 18:03 -0700, Tom via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > Thanks for posting your process.  Without having seen the original
> > image, I have a question: would the "Color to Alpha" function worked
> > well here?  Select the green background as the color to eliminate and
> > the coin should be all that's left, with a transparent background.
> Moderately, you would still need to grow & shrink the selection because
> it's not a 100% even green, so where the fuzzy select has a tolerance
> so all the green can be selected, colour to alpha will make partial
> transparency in places.  Also, there may be tiny dots of green in the
> actual coins, which aren't in reach of fuzzy select but select by
> colour or colour to alpha would affect them.
>
> slave liam

Understood.  Thanks!

Peace...

Tom