Where is *your* pic?

what u mean?

I believe ofnuts would like to see the image you want to render, or remove the background from?

well we already discussed about this so yea i want jst do not want the back ground to show like this guy did here he managed to save his pic and there was no background .... basically i want a pop out sig but thats hard i have been trying for the last few days ok this is wut i do or did anyways i opened a picture file i render the picture using the path tool than i clicked on select to path than i clicked layers than i click transparency then i click add alpha channel than i go to select invert than select none than i push the delete button than save it to xcf or png and the background stills shows

Are you unticking the save background color?

no i dont want the background color i just want the pop out pic and the sig thats it no background colors

Attach the XCF here and we should be able to tell you where you missed something (though the "select to path" above is suspect, I would have expected "path to selection")

This is the problem with tutorials in general. They are like driving instructions. As long as there are no problems and you make no mistakes, they are fine. But if you leave the indicated road for any reason (road works, forgot a turn...) they won't take you back to the track.

wut is xcf?

The file, in the format that keeps everything for Gimp.

Right, that's my whole point. If you are saving png files with that option ticked, it will not save as a transparency. Remove the check mark, and it saves as a transparency.

xcf is the native format of GIMP, that keeps all layers, and all corresponding data. Saving your files in xcf format allows you to re-use those layers and data in the future. Saving in any other format compresses (flattens) the image to one layer. (with the minor exception of apng files and animated gifs).

ok tell me step by step on how to make a pop out sig (i already have a few sigs that i made) but i wanna learn how to put a pop out pic sig and save it with no color background

I think you are probably doing it correctly, except that you do not seem to understand that when you save the graphic in png, you must make sure that save background color is NOT ticked as Mahvin has shown in the screen shot.

mahvin did not show me anythin

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do, but if the others haven't answered your question yet, you might be talking about one or both of these (or maybe a third):

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ONE: Cutting out the image -
When you're rendering, or cutting out the image you want, you have to add an alpha channel first. If you don't, then when you go to delete the stuff you don't want, it won't erase. I think it just turns white, which is not what you want.

Before cutting out your image, right-click on the layer and choose "add alpha channel". Then you should be able to erase the stuff you don't want.

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TWO: Making a pop-out sig -
To make a pop-out sig, your canvas has to be larger than the sig itself. So if the rectangle part of your sig is going to be 400x150 and you want a character to stand higher than the top of the rectangle, then your canvas has to be 400x200 or bigger.

Do you know how to change the canvas size after you've already started a project?

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THREE: Transparency -
I think I saw a post from you somewhere where you seemed to be having trouble with transparency. Just in case you're not aware, the checkerboard stuff represents transparency. Wherever you see the two-tone gray checkerboard, that means nothing is there, no color at all. Or at least, the more checkerboard you see, the more transparent the color is.

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What the others are saying is that, after you're finished, you have to save it as .png or your pop-out sig won't work.

Yes remember there are only 2 image formats that support transparency, and those are GIF and PNG.

Maybe a video tutorial would help since we can't seem to get our explanations clear enough. Anyone know of one that shows transparency and png file saving?

An old video, shows the same thing I have been saying all along:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_Wmy_m4qA

It doesn't show me adding the alpha channel, which is necessary to do first, as mentioned earlier.

ok this is what i made notice how the background is white and is way bigger than the sig and pop out pic? btw what do you guys think of my sig?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28R9prh ... re=related

this vid is pretty clear on how to make a popout sig...although it doesn't really explain the saving of it as png.