To make a GIMP image your desktop background, open it in GIMP and be sure to save it as a common extension, such as yourfilenamehere.jpg or .gif or .png. If your image is already listed under one of these extensions, you can skip this step.
Note: .xcf files are readable only by GIMP, so will not translate to a desktop image and can't be read by programs such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft internet Explorer or Windows Picture and Fax viewer.
Go to your desktop and right click. Select Properties from the drop-down menu and go to Desktop. There will be a list of images, to the right of which is a "Browse" button. Click this button and locate your image. Once you have found it, select it and click OK.
You can now either click "Apply" to apply your new background and see how it looks, keeping the Desktop dialogue open, or you can click OK and the background will apply, closing the desktop dialogue.
I hope this has been helpful for you. =]
To make an image semi-transparent in GIMP, you can adjust the opacity of the layer containing the image. Simply select the layer, go to the "Layers" menu, and adjust the opacity slider to the desired level. This will make the image appear semi-transparent.
There is no other way but just use the eraser to rub of the background you don't want, that's the only way. Another Answer: It is possible I would've thought. Obviously, it cannot be done within MS Paint but if you really want a white background you can use an Image editor such as Photoshop or GIMP to change it. Save your image in Paint, and open it in an image editor use the lasso tool in Photoshop or Scissor tool in GIMP and go around the picture and that erases the background. Save it and reopen it in MS Paint and the background should be white.
Make sure the image is in RBG mode. Select pencil or brush. double click on the foreground/background color block. pick the color you want. Draw.
Start a new layer. Make sure it's the lowest layer. Select it. Do whatever you want to do to it.
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, GIMP,
Well, first you have to make the non-transparent image transparent. go to colors>color to alpha the select the background (you can use the color picker tool by clicking the white bar and then the eye-dropper icon to the right of the HTML notation box) color of the non-transparent image. after you pres OK, the background color will change to transparency and you'll be able to see the layer beneath.
Gimp is a free image editor that can make animated .gif files just like Photoshop, which is a professional grade (and expensive) image editor program.
Load the image into an image program such as GIMP and select parts and save them into separate files.
You can use an image viewer like Irfanview to save the image and use the proper image setting to save as a PNG. Or the same with an image editor like GIMP.
To make a picture a background of a web site using CSS, you will use the different background properties, which are: background-color, background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment, and background-position. The specific property you are looking for is background-image. To use this property you would declare in your style sheet the following: body { background-image: url('paper.jpg'); } This is telling the web browser to use the image paper.jpg and make it the background of the entire page. The other background properties control whether the backgound is repeated along the x and/or y axis, the position on the screen the image begins at, whether the background is fixed or scrolls with the page, and the background color.
Photobucket does not offer a direct tool for creating transparent backgrounds like some graphic design software. However, you can upload an image and use external editing software, such as Photoshop or GIMP, to remove the background and then re-upload the edited image to Photobucket. Alternatively, some online tools specifically designed for removing backgrounds may also be used before uploading to Photobucket.
To create a 24-bit image in GIMP, first, open your image and navigate to the "Image" menu. Select "Mode" and ensure it's set to "RGB," as 24-bit images use 8 bits for each of the three color channels (red, green, and blue). If your image is in a different color mode, change it to RGB. Finally, save your image in a format that supports 24-bit color, such as PNG or JPG.