If you have any questions or run into any problems simply leave a comment below. To save your work, simply go to File > Export As… and make sure you choose to export it as a. Once you’ve done that you are finished! You’re successfully used GIMP to add a white outline around a transparent PNG. Now go to Select > None in order to remove the dotted outline from your screen. Simply go to Layer > New Layer, name it “Outline”, then click and drag it beneath the current layer in the Layers panel to the bottom right of your screen.īy default, your foreground color in GIMP should be set to black and your background color should be set to white, so all we have to do now is fill in the selection with white by going to Edit > Fill with BG color. Now we’re going to create a new layer and move it below the current layer. You will notice the thickness of your outline increase after applying This will determine the thickness of the white outline around your transparent PNG. Choose how many pixels you’d like to grow the selection by. Now we need to increase the size of the selection by going to Select > Grow. This will create a dotted line going around your subject. Next we’re going to create a selection around the subject of our PNG by going to Layer > Transparency > Alpha To Selection. Add a few extra pixels to each dimension (width and height) in order to accommodate a white outline.
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