Re: Background Gifs

1999-10-21 Thread James Knowles
Riyad Kalla wrote: > > I've done it on a page before. It was something equivalent to > > STYLE="Background: No-Title" or something to that extent.. I don't > remmeber... It's in the cascading style sheets. An example from my O'Reily HTML book for a single water mark in the centre of the page:

GIMP GIF->PNG transparency woes

1999-10-21 Thread James Knowles
Hi, I'm trying to convert GIFs with transparencies to PNGs using GIMP to produce a 100% GIF-free site. I take the following steps: 1) Open the GIF (for example, the gfx_by_gimp.gif "Graphics by GIMP") 2) Select "save as" 3) Select PNG type 4) Save 5) PNG options (compression) dialog comes up -

Re: Using Gimp for astro-photo processing.

1999-10-24 Thread James Knowles
> I'm interested in using The Gimp for processing astronomy photos taken > with a CCD camera. Basically this involves taking a series faint images, > aligning them (the object of interest will have moved slightly from > image to image) and then combining them to enhance the detail of the > faint o