On Friday 11 July 2008, David Hodson wrote:
> de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> > I am trying to read and crop a 16-bit png image. The info I get
> > from imagemagick's identify follows below. Once loaded into gimp,
> > the image appears to be a 8-bit. After cropping and saving as
> > png, it turns ou
I found a workaround. I simply loaded the image into Gimp, added a transparent
layer above the image, merged down, then saved. This time, what was supposed
to be transparent stayed that way.
--- On Fri, 7/11/08, David Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: David Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Elwin Estle wrote:
> Now for the weird part. If I turn off "use alpha" in the Blender texture
> file options, the entire, original image appears, it's as if the .png file
> was saved out just like the original picture, without any renders cut from
> it, etc.
As far as I know, the alpha channe
Okay, I did a further experiment. I did alpha to selection on the layer.
Saved the selection to a channel. Flattened the image, then re-added the alpha
channel and used the selection to cut away the white background.
Now, when I save out the image, it works as it should and the filesize is wa
This is with Gimp 2.4.6 on Windows XP professional.
I loaded an image into gimp and selected various aspects of it and cut away,
i.e. rendered parts of the background using layer masks. What I ended up with
were several layers, each with a different part of the original image, but
still the sa
