Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp displays photos with white background, even though they should be transparrent

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Allcollect (forums gimpusers com) wrote:
> I have a problem and someone can help me out.
> The tif photos are without background (transparent) and are shown as such in
> photoshop. However, when I open them in gimp they are displayed with a white
> background.
> How is this possible and is there a fix?

I suspect that these tiffs don't really have an alpha channel and just
contain a clipping path - the latter one is not interpreted by GIMP
afaik.

If the path is imported you can use it to manually clear the outside
area.

Bye,
         Simon

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