On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:26:23PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > > 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.
In general PNG doesn't work that way. It can do indexed transparency, but the advantage of using it comes in the fact that it has an alpha layer. The best way to use it is as someone else here pointed out: Make a new image with a transparent background and just don't put stuff where you want it transparent. IE has some issues displaying PNGs with alpha layers, but there are workarounds. Can we see some of these images with the resolutely opaque backgrounds? James. -- "Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be an insurmountable opportunity." - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
