Liam, thank you so much for your response. I've got a single square picture, which I've tried to crop to an oval with feathered edges. In GIMP the square part is red, the oval picture has a dotted moving line. When I "export as" to use the picture in Print Shop 4, I do get a PNG file but the square is black with a white oval where the picture should be. I don't understand what exactly transparency is used for, but it wouldn't seem like I need it. The section in the online manual showed those specific boxes to be checked when using "export as", so that's what puzzled me. I'm going to try to make the red square transparent as you suggested. This is a much more sophisticated program than I need for the things I do in Print Shop 4. There are certain things not available in PS 4 that I could do in PS 24; I thought maybe GIMP could fill that gap. Any other suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong would be very appreciated. Thank you, Marge
-----Original Message----- From: Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> To: sandpiper2196...@outlook.com <sandpiper2196...@outlook.com>; gimp-user-list@gnome.org <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2019 7:25 pm Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Export picture On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 15:54 +0000, sandpiper2196664--- via gimp-user- list wrote: > . It will not let me click on Save Comment or Save color values from > transparent pixels. When I Export As to Print Shop I get a blank > oval and no picture. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Took me > hours to get to this point and now I’m stuck! Thanks for your help, > Marge Save comment is greyed ou if there is no comment in the image. You can add one if you like in image->Image Properties. Save colour values from transpaernt pixels is greyed out if the image does not have any transparency. If you want transparency, go to the Layers dialogue (control-l, or layers->layers) and right-click on the background layer, and "add alpha channel" to make the image ready for transparency. Then, use the eraser tool, or select areas of the background layer and delete them, and you should see a grey checked background of alternating light and dark squares start to appear, showing where the image is transparent. Now, export the image and, if you like, you can save colour in transparent pixels,which tells GIMP to add information to teh saved file to say what colour the pixels would have been if you had not erased them. It's unlikey you want this, but for some advanced uses it's important. I don't know why you get a blank oval, though. slave ankh -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
