Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread Jon Cosby
norman wrote: I have a photograph of a black hexagon on a white background and I would like to make the background transparent so that I can lay this onto another image. I have tried and not made much progress and would be grateful if some kind person could please point me in the right

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread norman
Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. Select the white region by color. In the Layer - Transparency menu, add an alpha channel. In the same menu, set Color to alpha. This should make the white background to transparent. Thank you very much. Norman

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread norman
Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. Select the white region by color. In the Layer - Transparency menu, add an alpha channel. In the same menu, set Color to alpha. This should make the white background to transparent. I selected the white region by colour and in the Layer-

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread Daniel Hornung
Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. However, the set Colour to Alpha setting remained greyed out of action. What have I missed, please? Norman Are you in RGB mode? You can check it in Image-Mode. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread Jan Snyder
Like he said, changed it to RGB if it's not already. in the layers toolbox, right click on the layer and in the menu that comes up click add alpha channel. Then use the eraser tool on the area you want erased just to see if it works. On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread norman
Are you in RGB mode? You can check it in Image-Mode. No, changed to RGB, problem solved, thank you. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparency in a .png image

2006-10-31 Thread Andrew
Olle Viksten wrote: I have an image with a black background and red and yellow text. I need to make the background transparent so I can upload it to a T-shirt printer. Maybe I'm having a blonde moment but I can't find anyway to do it. Not in the menues and not on the net. I think the

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparency in a .png image

2006-10-31 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Olle Viksten escribe: I have an image with a black background and red and yellow text. I need to make the background transparent so I can upload it to a T-shirt printer. Maybe I'm having a blonde moment but I can't find anyway to do it. Not in the menues and not on the net. Can someone

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparency

2002-11-07 Thread Karl Auer
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:32:50 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a nice symbol with blue as background color. Now I want to replace the blue with transparency. How can I do that easily ? Add an alpha channel first (Image-Alpha-Add alpha channel, or via the Layers dialogue). Then use the magic

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Constantine
On 3/12/2001 06:58, Jason P. Holland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like it would

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Jason P. Holland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like it would work. thanks for the

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Seth Burgess
There's a couple of scripts that take a background color (or layer) and make a thin halo around your transparent image. This won't make a smooth gradient, but if you have some idea what your background is going to be it looks great. Even against a patterned background the human eye is quite