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Topic: How to make a color transparent in Gimp?
Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 04/20/12 08:52 PM
I have an image I created in Gimp 2.6.11. I want the color white to be transparent. How do I do so?

massagetrade Joined Thu 02/22/07 Posts: 8505	Fri 04/20/12 09:35 PM
I have an image I created in Gimp 2.6.11. I want the color white to be transparent. How do I do so? Try this: On the menu, select "colors" then "color to alpha".

massagetrade Joined Thu 02/22/07 Posts: 8505	Fri 04/20/12 09:36 PM
I have an image I created in Gimp 2.6.11. I want the color white to be transparent. How do I do so? Try this: On the menu, select "colors" then "color to alpha". This method is really simple, but it has the disadvantage of making transparent every pixel which has that color. Maybe you want only the pure-white regions to be selected for transparency?

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 04/20/12 09:53 PM
Thank you, I found it at http://heron.tc.clarkson.edu/~horn/classes/comm214/weeks/transparency.html. Yes, I wanted the entire color white to be transparent.

krupa Joined Thu 07/03/08 Posts: 18651	Sat 04/21/12 07:46 AM
You can also reduce opacity during individual colour application. 20% gives me pretty good results. Look up some of the Gimp tutorials on Youtube. There are some pretty good ones for visual effects.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 04/21/12 03:05 PM
I c&ped an image I created in Paint to Gimp, and I wanted to make the white transparent. I got it now though.

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