> Whatever people seem to have a chunk of experience > with first more or less defines what they think is the best interface. I agree, hadn't thought of that.. I cut my teeth on Waterloo script on mainframes, and struggled to adjust to M$Word's graphical wysywig idea - I still feel comfortable with markup languages like HTML. But meanwhile back at the farm, my .png image's background remains resolutely opaque. It consists of black text on white bg. As instructed I selected layer, new layer, transparent. No dice. This can't be the full story. How/where do I tell it that "listen, Gimp, whenever you see white space in this here image, I want it to be transparent". ? From memory, in PS I specified an index value for transparency. cheers Rod
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:03:35PM +1100, David wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:48 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > > > > Final straw was trying to set transparent background. I was presented > > > > with techno-gobbledegook. > > > > > > File - New - Fill Type: Transparent > > > > > > or in an existing image: > > > > > > Layer - New Layer - Layer Fill Type: Transparent > > > > I spent 10 years learning photoshop, and it took me an annoying one month > > to get the hang of GIMP. I kept expecting it to work EXACTLY the same as > > photoshop. > > > > This thread made me wonder: If people were brought up on Gnu/Linux the way > > most people are brought up on Windows, would they then find linux really > > easy, and Windows counter-intuitive and confusing? Is it simply what you > > learn first that defines what you find easy? > > I vote a resounding 'yes' on that one. Mac people say that Windows sucks, > Windows people say Macs and Linux sucks, and I say Windows is a PITA and Mac > OS X is not easy to use. Whatever people seem to have a chunk of experience > with first more or less defines what they think is the best interface. > > - Matt > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
