Selecting Transparancy Color in Gimp

[Rick Rosinski]

I am somewhat new at Gimp, so forgive me if this is a dumb question.
I want to paint in transparancy, as well as cut out areas of an image, leaving
transparancy behind, but all I can do is work with selectable colors,
gradients, and patterns, current color settings, etc.  How do I activate
transparancy so I can do this?

Thanks.



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