Making the background of an image transparent: You're off to a good start by adding an alpha channel, although you can do that easily by simply duplicating the "Background" layer. But it sounds like you want to make only a portion of the image transparent. You really need to either select the parts of the image that you want to make transparent, or mask them out. In general, this can be a tricky operation, heavily dependent on your image's unique characteristics.
Rather than try to list all the techniques you might find useful, I'll point you to Cary Bunks' great work, Grokking the Gimp. You can get to it from Toolbox->Xtns->Web_Browser->Grokking the Gimp. Look closely at chapters 3 and 4. HTH, -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzs Home Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/ Photo Gallery _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
