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To begin with, it's important to decide what we're advertising.
In this case, it's a street party and it would be nice to have a
central photo of last year's event with some inspiring words around
it to rally volunteers for this year. First then, we want to
create some new layers so we can operate on the parts of the image
as we want without affecting other parts. Right mouse click (RMC)
over the image and select Layers -> Layers, Channels & Paths. This
should bring up your layers dialogue box showing a single,
highlighted layer called 'Background'. We need to create a new
layer for our imported image. With the cursor over the highlighted
layer, RMC and select New Layer. This time we'll accept the
defaults (transparent fill type, and whatever size we're given!). A
new layer is created, called appropriately 'New Layer'. This
should be highlighted, and should show a chequered background to
indicate the layer is transparent. We now need to open our picture
of last year's street party, so that we can copy it and paste it
onto our new layer.
The photo I've chosen, is a normal 6 x 4 colour photo scanned in at
only 50 dpi and saved as a jpeg file. Having opened the photo,
select using the mouse the part you want (drag the pointer from top
left to bottom right to select a rectangle), and then press Ctrl +
C to copy the selection. Now change focus by clicking on your
poster, and press Ctrl + V to paste your selection. By default,
the gimp pastes into the centre of a new image or layer. Your
poster and the layers dialogue box should look like the screen shot
left.
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Next, we'll move the image slightly upwards, so that it
appears just underneath the title. Over the photo, press the
letter 'm' and then click and drag the photo to the position you
want. We can continue to move the pasted in image becuase it
remains a floating selection. When we're happy with its position,
we can anchor it by double clicking on the selection. The layers
dialogue box should change as shown, with the new layer showing the
pasted image
Now move on to the next lesson...
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