How To Highlight Text In Gimp

GIMP for dummies – How to highlight part of prototype !!!!!!

1 06 2008

So how do you highlight a office of an paradigm using the Gimp?. My question exactly since I don't know much nearly pixels inverts, color and layers this isn't exactly like shooting fish in a barrel for me to practice and Googling for an reply I establish people talking virtually inverting the selection and brushing away WTF.

Apparently the first matter I did was to open GIMP and look for the highlight button afterwards failing I tried other image editing aps. In open office draw the help file actually talks about a highlight tool bar button but I couldn't find it in the x 000 other tool bar buttons and the help file didn't specify a menu item I can use. The others like GNU paint, Xpaint and even Tux paint didn't provide "the magic push button".

Lucky for me I accept low friends in high places. And so I mailed one of them who claims to be a graphic design pupil. What I got back can only be described as the graphic design student manner of maxim RTFM or Read The F***** Manual. The fact that must have slipped the heed of the friend in question is who actually helped her install Xbuntu and GIMP in the starting time identify on her useless old G3 Mac.

I include the screen shots (without permission ;p) and some of my ain comments on highlighting a role of the image in GIMP:

1. Open the image with GIMP

two. Select function to highlight

Using the Rectangle Select Tool select the office of the Image y'all desire to highlight. After selecting with the Rectangle Select Tool the selected part will be surrounded with a box of moving dashed lines (Showed in 3).

3. Change colour

The colour that you desire to use to highlight can be selected on the top box of the Foreground & Background colors that is located at the lesser of the main tool bar the default seems to black and white. After clicking the black box a window named Modify Foreground Color will pop up. From the small notebook select the tab on the most right. In this case the yellow color was selected. The Foreground color should now be yellow or the color selected in your case. The area you want highlighted will all the same be surrounded in a dashed box.

four. Make full the selected expanse with Saucepan Make full Tool

It was this stride that provided the Eureka moment for me since the previous steps was obvious. Select the Bucket Fill up Tool. One time selected look out for the fill settings but under the main tool bar. The trick is that the default Opacity is set to 100. Information technology seems Opacity means almost the aforementioned every bit transparency except when the opacity is set to 0 the colour is 100% transparent and vice versa. Select a opacity of around 30 (experiment for all-time effect). Select FG colour fill. And select Fill up like colors, leave the balance of the settings as is. Lastly click inside the surface area selected in footstep 2  and the surface area should be "Highlighted"

None of this is possible in the first place without peachy free and open source tools like the Gimp running on a corking operating system like GNU/Linux.

Source: https://fredreh.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/gimp-for-dummies-how-to-highlight-part-of-image/

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