Set the background to the image you wanted to overlay on, and than create
the screenshot
in ParaView. I don't think we support transparent backgrounds, but you
could use a green screen style technique where you
set the background to a solid very unique color than use Gimp or your
favorite image editor to set that color as transparent.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:40 PM, J. Rafael Pacheco <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert,
> thanks, is this considered transparent? I know I can set the
> background to some color, but if black is transparent, that will do
> it, otherwise, I would like to see if that can be done.
> thanks
> Rafael
>
> On 09/01/2012, Robert Maynard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You can set the back of a view in ParaView to be an image.
> >
> > Goto Edit -> View Settings -> General -> Background Image.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:04 PM, J. Rafael Pacheco <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I wonder if there is a way to set transparent background in my images.
> >> I would like to overlay the png files on another image.
> >> Thanks!
> >> Rafael
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