Hello,

I have some very nice portrait pictures with my digital camera.  I would
like to take one portrait picture (semi transparent) and merge it with an
ocean picture or blue sky.  How can I do that with Gimp 2.0 on Windows?

Any help appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

BT

"Ben Theil" <noname@nowhere.net>, you wrote on Wed, 19 May 2004
21:46:47 -0500:

>I have some very nice portrait pictures with my digital camera.  I would
>like to take one portrait picture (semi transparent) and merge it with an
>ocean picture or blue sky.  How can I do that with Gimp 2.0 on Windows?

See: <http://gug.sunsite.dk/docs/Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/node68.html>
(Warning: over 1MB in illustrations)

If you want a complete and equal overlap, store the background in the
background layer, copy the foreground image to a second, foreground
layer, and drag the opacity slider of that second layer.

To work with layers, enable the Layers dialog.

Open the background and foreground images.

In the Layers dialog, drag the icon of the foreground image onto the
image window of the background image; this will automatically create a
second layer in the background image with the foreground image in it.

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