"Duplicate layer, invert bottom layer and cut all blacks and whites out of (transparent) top layer (of course, if there's a range of greys it gets more complicated)."
it's evident that this is the problem : i don't know about Rich's photo but the sample i use here have various flavors of blacks'. If it is not a simple Color2alpha should work to delete blacks and just add a white layer below :) i guess this is not the case :) Rich : Try Gmic Toolbox>Colors>Replace color select black as original and white as dest and play with smoothness. Is that good ? !! It's not working exactly the same as Gimp's replace color!! find gmic here : http://gmic.sourceforge.net/ this is a external filter addons with so many possibilities :) pygmee _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user