[Gimp-user] Please enlighten me!

2006-03-29 Thread Joachim Smith
Hello Gimp Wizards, This is my first post to this eminent forum. I'm a technical journalist working on a series of articles on freeware image editing software, for the Swedish monthly photo magazine FOTO. Gimp seems to be the 'pièce de résistance' of free image manipulation programs and I'm

[Gimp-user] Re: Please enlighten me!

2006-03-29 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Joachim Smith wrote: Hello Gimp Wizards, I am not a gimp wizard, just a user, so forgive me if I cannot answer all of your questions. I use gimp 2.3.7 so there might be a few differences between my answers and what you actually have in your version. [...] However, being raised on Photoshop

Re: [Gimp-user] Please enlighten me!

2006-03-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Joachim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From Photoshop I'm used to always having readouts available in the Info palette. In Gimp, it seems that though I get all kinds of positional data in the lower left image frame corner, there's no color data readout option. GIMP has an Info window

[Gimp-user] bw to btransparent

2006-03-29 Thread mickeydog
I have an image that is 2 colors, black and white. I want to change all the white pixel to transparent. How do I do this? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] bw to btransparent

2006-03-29 Thread Andreas Waechter
mickeydog wrote: I have an image that is 2 colors, black and white. I want to change all the white pixel to transparent. How do I do this? Add an alpha channel to the image (if not possible, change image mode from indexed to RGB first) Select by Color (selecting white) Ctrl-K to clear the

Re: [Gimp-user] bw to btransparent

2006-03-29 Thread Mateusz Misiorny
On 3/29/06, mickeydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an image that is 2 colors, black and white. I want to change all the white pixel to transparent. How do I do this? Filters - Colors - Color to Alpha HTH, Mati ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] bw to btransparent

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I would copy the layer, paste it into a layer mask (add layer mask-from selection), and invert the mask. Cheers, Dave. mickeydog wrote: I have an image that is 2 colors, black and white. I want to change all the white pixel to transparent. How do I do this?