Re: pixmap and png..background

[AKILA M <akila crlbel ernet in>]

Thankx a lot for all you people :-)
My images are TRANSPARENT now....
what i did was

        1. i chose RGB [image->mode->RGB]
        2. i also added alpha channel[image->alpha->add alpha channel]
        3. i did color to alpha[filters->color->color to
                                                        alpha->background]

  keep up the good work
thankx a lot again for all suggestions and help
akila  

On 27 Jul 2002, Michael Torrie wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 07:30, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 07:57, AKILA M wrote:
> >
> > >    please let me know whats to be done exactly.
> >
> > You have to erase the white background. Select it using the magic wand
> > tool, and clear it, so that you see the checkerboard in the background.
>
> What I did was:
>
> 1.  Right-click->Layers->Add Alpha Channel
> 2.  Right-click->Image->Mode->RGB  (not always necessary)
> 3.  Use magic wand (intelligent scissors) and select the white
> background parts.
> 4.  Used the Cut operation.
>
> At first, before I changed the mode to RGB, the intelligent scissor tool
> would select the whole image.  After switching to RGB, it started
> working properly again, selecting contiguous regions of similar color.
>
> To create a new transparent png, just select the "transparent" option
> for background in the file->new dialog box.
>
> Michael
>
> >  
> >
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