Wow, a much more positive and supportive message. :) Thanks Brent! I'll have to check that out next time I try out GIMP! :) No wait, I'll go try now, it's worth it for this discussion... afk... WOW, that's awesome. Somehow I never associated checkerboard with checks. "Light Checks" is my new setting of choice! Thanks Brent!
David McD On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:04 -0500, Brent Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [2005-02-12 10:29] David McDowell said: > | transparent is non color based. Transparent means there is no layer > | or invisible layer under your graphic. There is the checkerboard like > | background to the window under/behind (however you wanna say it) your > | graphic. It simple lacks the ability to stay that way when looking at > | it. That checkerboard area is too bold and the checkered size is too > | large. The darker squares should be dulled down to a lighter grey and > | the square size should be smaller. > > gimp has a dialog for modifying this: > > File -> Preferences -> Display > > There is an option to set "Light Checks" for the Transparency > type, as well as three "Check size" setting. Sure, it could be > more configurable...I'm sure they'd accept a patch :-) > > b > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
