GIMP Version: 2.8.10
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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I am trying to create a flyer for promoting our payroll services for small business. I want to use the same colors that we used on our business card. If you notice on the image, the tax forms are sticking out into the white border on the right. I've tried and tried to figure out how to select that so that i can make the whole white background the lt blue grey color, but i can never get it right. Plus, if you notice, there is shading under the bit of tax form that is sticking out. How can i fix this?

Thank you for any help!

Beth

Couldn't you use your resize tool and shrink them down to fit inside the white border, and lighten the opacity on the shadow?

This is done by erasing the white properly and painting over in "behind" mode:

- sample the light blue color *now* with the color selector
- do a fuzzy select on the white background
- shift-click in the shadows to add them to the selection (don't miss the shadow in the white stripe between the dark blue and the medium blue
- Select>Grow by one pixel
- Color>Color to alpha to remove the white (you'll notice that the shadows are faintly visible over the transparency). Not that this also appears to have remove the light blue
- Remove the selection
- Set the bucket fill tool to "Behind" mode
- Bucket fill with the light blue. What was white is now light blue. You'll notice that the shadows are back
- Now, the light blue area on the right is the wrong color (because it wasn't completely erased...). Just make a rectangle selection over it, enlarge it by 1pixel on all sides, set the bucket-fill tool to "Normal" and fill with light blue again.