Re: Selecting Transparancy Color in Gimp

[Hago Ziegler]

Hi,

> 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?

You have to rightclick into the image  -  then do:  image/alpha/add alpha
channel
after that you can cut and transparency will be left instead of a
backgroundcolor.

Hago