[Gimp-user] Change background to tranparent?

2011-02-08 Thread .
I made a web banner (728 x 90) but forgot to set the background to being transparent (so the web page background can show through). Do you know how I can easily change the background of the banner to transparent? Thank you signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Gimp-user] Change background to tranparent?

2011-02-08 Thread Nishandh M
(1)make a new layer, with 'Alpha' attribute. (in a new image file) (2) select and cut the image from your banner, and copy to this alpha layer ( so that only the area having visible pixels is opaque) (3) Save in a format which preserves Alpha(transparency) information warning: this could go wrong,

Re: [Gimp-user] Change background to tranparent?

2011-02-08 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi Peace, On 08 Feb 11 19:23 . pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net said: Do you know how I can easily change the background of the banner to transparent? Depends on whether you have the file saved in XCF format, how many layers, etc. Let's assume it is a GIF. In crude terms: 1. Select

Re: [Gimp-user] Change background to tranparent?

2011-02-08 Thread Ofnuts
On 02/08/2011 08:23 PM, . wrote: I made a web banner (728 x 90) but forgot to set the background to being transparent (so the web page background can show through). Do you know how I can easily change the background of the banner to transparent? If the background is a rather different