My lack of image editing skills is driving me insane.. I need this sprite bucket-filled with a green colour-key 0x008000. http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/672/f14gr6.png I'm using the GIMP, and I've been able to do it with all my other sprites using bucket "burn", "overlay" and "behind" modes.. usually then with some sharpening it comes out ok. But just with this one sprite (I have no clue why!) when I try to fill the background green it fills half the airplane green as well! If I use a passive bucket-fill (like in paint) then it leaves horrible whitish dots around the edges when I use a white colour key.. I need some way of filling it smoothly so there is an unnoticeable transition between the airplane and the green background.. Can someone please teach me how to do this in the GIMP? Even a hint in the right direction and I would figure it out myself.. Much appreciated, [Edited by - phalaris on April 15, 2008 9:03:23 AM]

I've never used GIMP, but try using the Magic Wand tool and select the white background, delete it, and create a new layer underneath the sprite and fill it with the color of your choice.

If there's a Color Range option in GIMP you can eyedrop the white background and it will select every pixel of white in the image and you can do it that way as well.

Quote: Original post by Davion
I've never used GIMP, but try using the Magic Wand tool and select the white background, delete it, and create a new layer underneath the sprite and fill it with the color of your choice.

If there's a Color Range option in GIMP you can eyedrop the white background and it will select every pixel of white in the image and you can do it that way as well.

Cheers for the reply, The problem is, as I say that the background is white everywhere, except close to the airplane. There every pixel is a different shade of white. So when I select the white background and delete it, the whitish-greyish pixels that are touching the airplane are still there. So when I colour-key the sprite it looks like it's been torn out of a newspaper or something.

Here is a pic: http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/8109/f14is4.png
This is after many touch-ups. If I use blur or gaussian filter then the edge gets smoothed out, but the airplane starts to look watery. I think the problem is partly due to the fact that the images are very small (64x64 pixels).

Anyway thanks for the reply

Up the Threshold on the Magic Wand to eat away most of the white around the airplane, then go through with the Pencil tool and paint any spots that still stick out pixel by pixel.

thank you, it looks much better now! actually the threshhold on the bucket itself is helpful too, which I didn't know about.

I guess I should learn photoshop after all this is over..

Doesn't matter too much, if you learn GIMP you'll know Photoshop because they are pretty much the exact same thing.