Instead of trying to use the (weird) erase tool to clean up images use the fuzzy select toon and for totally clean up the rectangle select tool then right click > edit > cut to clean off say pixilated junk. Update: This isn't that hard to use after all. I just didn't want to learn a new program was all. Now that I'm a little more advanced in my graphic art, and photo edits I've out grown MS 'pain' and Photofiltre. We’ve chosen a subtle gray so as not to drown out the shadowing.The last time I reviewed this was in 2006.

At the end, should you feel the white background to not be adequate, you can highlight the Background layer, select the Bucket Fill Tool, and proceed to add a bit of color.

Other than that, select the GIMP logo layer and move it into the position you want in the thumbnail. If you choose to do so, the directions are the same.

It’s not necessary but we decided to add a shadow to the GIMP logo.

Merge Down the Drop Shadow layer on top of your text layer.

To avoid a shift in the image, uncheck the box marked Allow resizing before pressing OK.

However, since our background is white, black is perfectly fine.

You could change the color of the shadow to make it more visible on the backdrop, say for instance if your background was black it would be better to choose a brighter color.

For the thumbnail we selected ‘ 8’ in both X and Y, ‘ 20’ in blur radius, and cranked the opacity to ‘ 100’.

We can then drag the image off to the side so that it’s out of the way for our text until we need to reposition it.

If you follow the instructions illustrated above, adjust the image width and height to 200px.

The layer image is a 1200 x 1200 which is much too large for our primary image at 680 x 400.

Select the GIMP logo you downloaded earlier and click Open. So, open the “File” tab and this time select Open As Layers… just as we did for the arrow during Image Rotation.

The best thing to do is add your additional layer now, that way once we begin adding the text, we’ll be able to adjust it so that it doesn’t block out the image.

You can choose to color the background however you like using the Bucket Fill Tool in the Tool Doc, but for now, we’ll keep it white. We should now be looking at a blank (white) canvas.As for the height, we’ll keep it at 400px. Our thumbnails are never any larger than 680px width, so we’ll set our image size as such.

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