I'd like to orient a picture of a book so that it's on  a 45 degree angle and then "cut out" the area around the "book" to that when you view the picture is looks like a book on  a 45 degree angle with no area around it.  I'm sure GIMP can do that but the question is whether I can put that same photo on a website and have it look like it's a book on a 45 degree angle.

Yes, you should be able to. First crop the image (easier to do at this step), then use the rotate tool. Rotate tool has options that allow you to specify the point that you rotate around, as well as the angle to rotate.

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I'd like to orient a picture of a book so that it's on a 45 degree angle and then "cut out" the area around the "book" to that when you view the picture is looks like a book on a 45 degree angle with no area
around it. I'm sure GIMP can do that but the question is whether I can
put that same photo on a website and have it look like it's a book on a
45 degree angle.

Any thoughts on this?

1. Rotate the image
2. Cut out the background (color to alpha if possible) 3. Alpha to selection
4. Copy/Cut and Paste as new image with transparent background 5. Save as png

Hmm... the 45 degree angle part is simple enough, if that is what you really mean. However, when you start talking about a "book" at a 45 degree angle, it sounds maybe like what you want is to make it look as if it is being "viewed" from a 45 degree angle? ... not just rotated? ... with some sort of 3d look to it? If that is the case, you might want filters>map>map object and map the thing to a box, then modify the settings so that you have a tall, thin box, standing on end with the picture on one face of it, sort of like a software box for a software ad.

...is that correct?

...something like this?

http://tutorialblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/final1.jpg

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Subject: [Gimp-user] Rotate a picture? To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 9:09 PM I'd like to orient a picture of a
book so that it's on  a 45 degree
angle and then "cut out" the area around the "book" to that when you
view the picture is looks like a book on  a 45 degree angle with no area
around it.  I'm sure GIMP can do that but the question is whether I can
put that same photo on a website and have it look like it's a book on a
45 degree angle.

Any thoughts on this?

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Hi Peace,

On 04 Feb 11 03:48 "Owen" said:

1. Rotate the image
2. Cut out the background (color to alpha if possible) 3. Alpha to selection
4. Copy/Cut and Paste as new image with transparent background 5. Save as png

It was 2004 when I produced this image: http://www.bankandshop.plus.com/bankshopcover.jpg so I can't remember exactly how I made it.

It appears on this page: http://www.bankandshop.plus.com/index.htm

But I think it was:

1. Scan book 2. Scale Image
3. Add Drop Sadow
4. Merge Layers
5. Increase Canvas size
6. Rotate Image
7. Set Background colour to pink
8. Save as JPG

The book is still available but a bit dated these days. No royalties for the last five years.

Greg Chapman http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
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