phunni Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 I have an image that I want to use as the background to a logo. The basic image is of a tomato which I have made slightly translucent. What I want to do is change the size of the image by stretching it to fit the logo size - but I don't want the tomato to look stretched, but it doesn't matter if the background that the tomato is on is stretched. The background is part of the original tomato image. The original image (after transparency) can be viewed at www.redfruit.co.uk/images/translucentTomato.png Does this make any kind of sense? If it does - then any ideas would be appreciated. I'm using the gimp to edit the images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 I'm not entirely sure what you're wanting to do but I'd suggest either scaling the image (with some loss of quality), or you could change the size of the canvas you're working on - leaving the tomato image the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 I tried changing the canvas size - but this doesn't seem to increase the area of image I can edit. All I get is checked squares that I can't do anything with - the image remains the same size... Sorry if I'm being really stupid here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 This no good?? http://213.232.94.69/anon/tomato/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 That's pretty good - but it needs to be longer and thinner - without the tomato looking stupid. I want it to be about w:500 x h:75 apprx. It's ok for the tomato to get lost a bit at the top or bottom - but it needs to be largely there. I was wondering if I could get away with copying and pasting sections of the background to increase the length of the image - not sure if I could do this and not have it look like I've done that though... Anon: the images you have done don't squish the tomato too much, but it couldn't go much more than that I wouldn't think Edit: to give everyone a bit more background - I'm trying to desing a company logo. What I'm currently thinking is 500x75 with this image as the background (the tomato to one side) and the text Red Fruit IT in as uitable colour on top. The text I can do :D It's getting the image to be the right size/shape that I'm struggling with - I suspect largely because I don't know the Gimp all that well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 If you purely want to change the canvas size (and produce a white background), simply select the entire image and copy it. The create a new image, with a white background, and paste the tomato into that new image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 I've tried copying and apsting sections of the background onto the end of the image to increase it's size, but it looks far too obvious... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 I changed the size of those using Mozilla composer, took me two minutes. 500x75 looks squashed. 500x175 is better. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 would something like this work? http://home.satx.rr.com/mystified/img/tran...centTomato1.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 I think I will love you for the whole of my life - thank you. Edit - BTW, how did you actually do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 :lol: You're welcome. I cut out the very right side of the background and resized it to 500 X 75. I resized the tomato to a height of 75px and then copied and pasted it over the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 :lol: You're welcome. I cut out the very right side of the background and resized it to 500 X 75. I resized the tomato to a height of 75px and then copied and pasted it over the background. Smart ass :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Smart ass :wink: :P :P You forget, I spend a lot of time working with graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Mystified. I have a question. Just how do you quickly cut out just the tomato without getting any background? Free handing is a real pain. And color removal just doen't work right for me. Do you set the "select" limits to just include the background or the tomato, then clean it up by hand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 I dunno what you mean by freehanding, unless you mean the freehand select tool. This is how you do it in the Gimp. Right click the image area Click Dialogs -> Layers, Channels and Paths Click the Channels Tab Either right click in there and select New Layer or click the single white piece of paper in lower left. Accept the default of 50% Your image will look kinda greyed out This is a mask (I may be using the terms backwards, but hopefully you'll know what I mean) White takes away from the mask and black adds back to it Click the paint brush and select a fairly large brush and choose white Paint the tomato with it You'll see the tomato get more clear If you go over the edge of the tomato, select black and paint the background a little You can change your brush sizes to get detailed and zoom in and stuff When you're satisfied that you think all the tomato is painted and none of the background (the clearer part of the image is what is going to be selected) rightclick on the new channel in the Channel Dialog window and select "Channel to Selection". If you don't think the selection is just right, right-click the image and choose Select->None and go back with the white or black brush on that channel and edit. Once you've got a good selection, click the Layers tab and click the main layer to make it active and right click the image and choose Edit -> Copy You can now go to your new image that has the background you want and right-click it and choose Paste. Voila. Photoshop has a similar thing called Layer Mask and Mask to Selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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