Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

[James <virtue rocketmonkeys com>]

Your email is formatted strangely.  Hard to read.

I think this is a good reason to do levels first.  Without doing
levels, you get a semi-transparent black, and the background shows
through.

Before levels:
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/rocketmonkeys/1-beforelevels.png

After levels:
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/rocketmonkeys/2-afterlevels.png

After Color To Alpha:
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/rocketmonkeys/3-aftercolortoalpha.png
Notice that the blacks are true black, not semi-transparent.  This
because you started with black, not gray.

This is what it looks like with a blue background:
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/rocketmonkeys/4-withbluebackground.png

Try it out, let me know if you're still stuck.

-James