Re: [Gimp-user] black canvas extension

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 12/29/2013 01:22 PM, EGoldman wrote:
> Thank you so very much for responding. It isn't working for me. I am still
> looking at my image and the canvas with squares. Should I be opening "new layer"
> and if so how do I get it black? I'm so close yet so far ...lol
It's "Layer/New Layer" from the menu. It doesn't matter what color you 
make the new layer because you can use the paint bucket to change the 
color to black. But if you change the Foreground/Background colors to 
black and white, then you can choose one to be the color of the new layer.