[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to make one colour of an indexed image transparent. Can you do this > in GIMP?
select->by color, then cut (ctrl-x) or clear (ctrl-k) > > longer explanation: > I've taken a photo of a face with a digital camera and have indexed that image, > as a GIF (to save space for a final animation). I want to make the resulting > indexed background colour transparent, then distort the image in various ways, > eg. using Bend, and then insert the various images into layers to make a > GIF animation, with a transparent background. I can do all of this except for > the transparent background part. > > I've seen other programs that automatically make the bottom left hand pixel > of a GIF transparent but can't see how to do this simply with GIMP. Feel > there should be a simpler way than having to select the face and paste it > into a transparent background -- it would be very difficult to select the face > accurately. if your background is easy to select, selecting the face is as easy as selecting the background and inverted the selection, isn't it? > > - Bill Kerr > regards, Olivier. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
