[TriLUG] OT looking for Gimp book recommendation

[David McDowell]

transparent is non color based.  Transparent means there is no layer
or invisible layer under your graphic.  There is the checkerboard like
background to the window under/behind (however you wanna say it) your
graphic.  It simple lacks the ability to stay that way when looking at
it.  That checkerboard area is too bold and the checkered size is too
large.  The darker squares should be dulled down to a lighter grey and
the square size should be smaller.


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:15:29 -0500, Steve Litt
<slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Friday 11 February 2005 10:40 am, David McDowell wrote:
> > I still don't like the way the program "looks"...
> > it's not so smooth and the checkerboard background on transparent
> > images is still REALLY hard to look through.  I wish they'd learn
> > something from the way Photoshop does this.
> 
> What color would you like the transparent stuff? Just put a temporary layer at
> the bottom, in the color you'd like the transparent to be. At the end of the
> whole thing, once you're finished creating, make that dummy layer invisible.
> 
> SteveT
> 
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