On Thursday 08 September 2005 07:57, Chris Spencer wrote:

I've scanned an inked pencil drawing, and I'd like to remove the blue pencil sketch marks with the GIMP, but I can't figure out how. Basically, all I need to do is remove all shades of blue from the image. Is this possible? I haven't found any tutorials on this subject. Any help is appreciated.

hi, have you tried the colour picker tool ? that's the icon that looks like a medicine dropper (for some reason).

sammi

On 9/8/05, Chris Spencer wrote:

I've scanned an inked pencil drawing, and I'd like to remove the blue pencil sketch marks with the GIMP, but I can't figure out how. Basically, all I need to do is remove all shades of blue from the image.

Try either colour-to-alpha, or the select-by-colour. The first is a filter (right-click image, click image menu, click colors, click "color to alpha" in 2.2.8, maybe earlier) and the second is a tool (looks like a finger pointing at one of three coloured squares). Good luck!

Btw, if you delete an area, it becomes transparent -- you can turn it to the background colour by flattening as far as I know, or you can put another layer of the colour of your background behind it (may require you to add an alpha channel, if one doesn't already exist -- right click layer name and click "add alpha channel").