Now that the background is selected, press the Delete key. To do this, go to Select and click Invert in the menu. Since we need to remove the background and not the selection, we need to invert it. Draw the path a bit inside the main boundary and if you want to undo the last point, press the shortcut Ctrl + Z.Ĭontinue to do so until the two points meet and then press the Enter button. You have to do it manually by clicking the mouse on the schematic. Then, using this tool, draw the outline of the image you want to keep. Click on it from the left sidebar to select it. In this method, we will use the Path tool. You can right-click on the image layer and select Add Alpha Channel from the menu. Open the image and add the alpha channelĪs usual, load the image in GIMP and add the alpha channel. Lastly, using File > Export As, save your image with the. Layer>Erase background should make the background transparent.If you're happy with your image, skip to step 12, however if you feel like the sides aren't perfect, use the Eraser Tool to remove the extra background and give it a proper shape.Click in a corner of the top layer, this should select the background.Set the tools to the "By Color" selector.Set Gimp background color from the background color of your image (#eeeeee).
This create a new image, you can close the source one. Remove the optimizations: Filters>Animation>Unoptimize. However there is a script that makes this a bit faster if used right: For a single layer, that means Select the background,Select>Grow by two pixels, andColors>Color to Alpha` but this will be long for 68 layers. So the light gray things will remain opaque, and we want to remove the background but prevent Color-to-alpha to change the light gray things into be partially opaque pixels. Export as GIF, don't forget to tick the animation checkbox, and to force all frames to 40ms (the optimization sets a longer interval).This will create a new image, use Filters>Animation>Playback to check it. Image>Interleave layers>Interleave single layer (sprite mode) and select the white layer.Add a layer filled with white (or your new background color).Dark grey can darken to black, but don't panic. Colors>Color to Alpha All layers and remove the background (color-pick, it should be #EEEEEE).Change image to full RGB: Image>Mode>RGB.Remove the optimizations: Filters>Animation>Unoptimize.But in a GIF, there are no partially opaque pixels, they are fully opaque or fully transparent, so you can't have shadows. In the picture above the shadows would be implemented as partially opaque pixels, that would slightly darken the pixels of the background. When you want a transparent background, you want to be able to show the picture over any background.
Then a transparent background is not doable for this particular GIF. It depends if the light gray things are shadows or not.
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