This is a guide to GIMP erase to transparent. You can also go through the other parameters of this feature for a better understanding of it. This was a good explanation about how you can erase any image’s background to transparent or any particular area of that image into transparent and use that area for making any effective design. So this is the nice way you can erase any particular area of any image into transparent and use it to make a good design. You can change the color of the pattern at any time by changing the color of the background layer of the transparent layer. It will fill the transparent layer with your selected color, and you can see this color through a transparent pattern of the flower image layer. Select the transparent layer on the layer panel and click on the transparent pattern area of the flower image with the help of the bucket tool. Now go to the tool panel and take the Bucket tool or press the Shift + B button as short cut key. Now select your desired color in the foreground color box of the tool panel.

Now move this transparent layer below to the image layer with the help of the mouse left button. Now go to the bottom of the layer panel and click on the Create new layer button for having a new layer in the layer panel.Ĭreate a transparent layer by choosing the Transparency option in the ‘Fill with’ option of this ‘New Layer’ dialog box and hit on the Ok button of it. So this way, you can make any pattern on the image with erased transparency of that pattern. I will choose this star shape pattern as the brush tip of the eraser tool and make a click on the background of this image, and you will notice that the area where I use patterned eraser has transparency.

You will see transparency in that section because we have converted this layer to transparent.īecause the eraser tool has a brushstroke on its tip, you can choose any pattern from a parameter of the brush of the Eraser tool for erasing any area of the image to transparent. Just drag the brush tip of the eraser tool on any area of the image, and it will erase the background area from that particular section. This time we will erase the small area of this image to transparent. Now take Eraser Tool from the tool panel or press Shift + E as the shortcut key of it. Then click on the ‘None option of the drop-down list of it. For enabling selection around this flower, go to the Select menu of the menu bar and click on it. Now undo this background by pressing the Ctrl + Z button on the keyboard and enabling selection around this flower. Let us also understand another aspect of erasing to transparent feature. This way, you can erase any background to transparent. Or you can find this option in the scroll-down list of the Edit menu of the menu bar, or you can simply press the Delete button on the keyboard.Īnd the background of our flower will erase like this.

Go to the Edit option, then click on the Clear option of the new drop-down list. Now make right-click anywhere on the image area, and a drop-down list will be open. You can make multiple clicks for making a better selection. Once you make a click, a selection will highlight with magenta color if the Draw Mask option of this tool is enabled in the parameters panel of this tool. Make a click on the background of the flower with a fuzzy select tool for making a selection around the flower. Now go to the tool panel and take the Fuzzy Select tool by click on its icon, or you can press U as a shortcut. You will see transparency after erasing the background of this image or any particular area of this image. Just go to the layer menu and click on it, then go to the Transparency option of the drop-down list and click on the ‘Add Alpha Channel’ option of the new drop-down list. You can also find this option from the Layer menu of the menu bar. This option will convert your selected layer into a transparent background layer. A drop-down list will be open click on the ‘Add Alpha Channel’ option of this list. The first thing you have to do for this purpose is go to the layer panel, select the layer you want to have a transparent background, and make a right-click on it.

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