Arthmoor Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Ok, so I have need to turn a color on a texture into transparent alpha. The image is loaded in GIMP, but when I go to use the color-to-alpha and specify the color I want turned transparent, the preview window is still trying to fade other colors in the image as well. Is there a way to get to convert ONLY the specified color and nothing else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Depends on what you want to do, but what you want can probably be achieved by:1. Go to Layer/Transparency/Add Alpha Channel.2. Use the Select By Color Tool (the hand pointing at an RGB bar in the top right) to select your color. Depending on how strict you want your selection, play with the Threshold value. Alternately, magic wand select or lasso select. Whatever.3. Hit delete.Alternately, if you want it partially transparent, add the alpha channel, then use the eraser tool at some non-100 level of opacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 Genius, that worked. Thanks. If only this stuff was a bit more obvious in GIMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Cool, even for my limited uses of GIMP that's nice to know how to do. But, yes, documentation and intuitiveness have always been GIMP's weakest features in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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