Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:56 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: > >> I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows >> almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. >> Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial transparency. >> The image doesn't contain any transparency though (I don't even think >> BMP supports transparency). >> >> Other image editors and viewers such as Irfanview and Paint.NET open the >> image correctly. > > I am not so sure about that. The image opened in GIMP has all the > information and an alpha channel. If you change the alpha channel to be > all opaque, then you will see the image as shown by other viewers you > tried. So I would rather assume that the other viewers don't support > masks in BMP files and just ignore that extra information. As long as > that is not sorted out, you should not file this as a bug report against > GIMP. It is quite likely that the bug is elsewhere. > > > Sven >
Hi, Sven is right. I just did: "Add Layer Mask" -> "Transfer layer's alpha channel", check "Invert Mask", then file -> open as layers -> open the original image, flatten and the image is O.K. So it is not a bug in GIMP, but maybe in the way the image was saved with this mask. Peter _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
