Hello folks

I have eight images that I'd like to manipulate slightly. I've taken pictures of o-rings on white paper and would like to paste them onto a white background. The trouble is the white paper looks grey against the white background. I've had a go at "cutting" them out and making the background transparent in Gimp2 but it looks like I've cut them out with a rusty pair of scissors and my attempts look laughable.

Would anyone be willing to help me out for a few beer tokens?

The images I have are quite large so I'd need your email address to send them to.

Thanks in advance, Matt

Don't you just need to 'flood fill' the white paper area? You can do that in MS Paint.

I suspect it's not the flood fill but the circularity... difficult to trace a line with a mouse.

You may be able to make a key based on a two-level split, but I defer to the experts.

I'd be able to do this but it would probably be Friday night before I'll have time to sit down and "play" on Photo-shop. I'll ping my email address over anyway and if no-one has done it by then I'll do it. No beer tokens necessary.

Reading between the lines above I guess the grey background is too close to the colour of the O-rings to use a flood fill?

Thanks Wishy, email sent.

I'm not sure what a flood fill is but in Gimp2 I was trying to make the background as a transparent layer (alpha channel?) and save as a gif. I had mixed success but most attempts were gash. The o-rings are black and amber (nitrile and polyurethane). I think it's the shadows of the o-rings which are most difficult to make look natural and still keep in the picture.