Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with transparency

["Rick Strong" <rnstrong magma ca>]

You can't "fill" an area with transparency.

- Add a transparent layer as described by Steve Kinney:

"... make sure the image layer you are working on has an alpha channel,
which enables transparency i the layer.  Find your Layers dialog dock
(it's the open tab in "number four" in the illustration on this page:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-concepts-main-windows.html ).  Right
click on the layer thumbnail, and look for "Add Alpha Channel" in the
menu that opens.  If it's grayed out, no worries, there's already an
alpha channel for that layer.  If it's not grayed out, select it to add
an alpha channel.

Then, anything you "erase" or "delete" from the layer will become
transparent..."

- Select your white area.
- Delete it and you should see the transparency "checkerboard" show up.
- Save your image or put it on top of whatever you want to show through.

Hope that helps,
Rick

-----Original Message----- 
From: acctingman
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:30 PM
To: gimp-user-list gnome org
Cc: notifications gimpusers com
Subject: [Gimp-user] Need help with transparency

So, this what I ended up with.....

I had the white area selected with "fuzzy tool"....it was 
highlighted....clicked
the white area......then used "Bucket fill tool"........then I set the 
affected
area to Fill whole selection" and clicked inside that white area....it 
turned it
black....saved it the area was black.....not transparent

Where did I go wrong?

Thanks

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