When you create a new image in gimp, one of the options is the type of background: foreground color, background color or transparent. Choose transparent. It's on the window that opens when you choose file->new option.

spu wrote:

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick

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It looks like he was using "Script-Fu" to make logos when you do it THAT way (Xtns/Script-Fu/Logos) you don't have a way to have the plug-in create a transparent background for you, at least not with Gimp-1.2.3.

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Geoffrey wrote:

When you create a new image in gimp, one of the options is the type of background: foreground color, background color or transparent. Choose transparent. It's on the window that opens when you choose file->new option.

spu wrote:

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:24:49 -0400 Geoffrey wrote:

When you create a new image in gimp, one of the options is the type of background: foreground color, background color or transparent. Choose transparent. It's on the window that opens when you choose file->new option.

spu wrote:

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick

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On 20 Jul 2002 09:22:19 -0500
spu wrote:

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick

It looks like you're creating "Glossy" style logos, from Xtns/Script-Fu/Logos/Glossy. For this particular type of logo, making the background transparent is float is pretty simple. To do it:

1: Create the logo, as normal 2: Go to your Layers, Channels, and Paths dialog box. The image should have four layers. The bottom-most layer is the background. Delete it (or hide it) and the background layer will be invisible. You could also merge the visible layers at this point (though don't flatten the image -- that'll put in a background color)
3: Save the image as a .gif or a .png. Right now, you're saving the file as a jpeg; those don't support transparency at all.

--Joel

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick

Nigel Ridley wrote:

On 20 Jul 2002 09:22:19 -0500
spu wrote:

Hello, all :)
How can I make logos with no background, so that the logo will appear to be right on top of the background, and not in the middle of a big white background. I looked around in "The Gimp" in the appropriate areas, and I could only see where it would allow me to choose the background color, not to omit the background entirely. All help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. The following links are two examples about the problem I am having:

http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/Logos.html http://www.faith4miracle.org/pages/underconstruction.html

The main address is: http://www.faith4miracle.org

Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick