Thanks Malcom and Tom, The color to alpha did a beautiful job - exactly what I was looking for. My brain told me all these years that there must be a simple way to accomplish this... thanks for making me whole again.
Eric P. --- Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:31:45PM -0800, Eric > Pierce wrote: > > I've wondered for years if there's any way to > > perfectly strip an image from a solid colored > > background while maintaining any alpha channel > info. > > > > Take this image for instance. > > http://epierce.freeshell.org/temp/index.html > > > > The background is 100% white. But there's some > > definate blending going on with the image border > and > > with the image shadow. > > Have a look at this tutorial which describes what > you want to do: > > > http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/color_to_alpha/demo/color2alpha.html > > Cheers, > Malcolm __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user