[lug] transparent images

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

At 11:11 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I use gimp and layer masks (learned from the Graphics Muse himself, okay,
>actually it was from his website and his book)
>
>Hugh

Well, I have discovered that I am still as graphically challenged as I have 
been in the past. I open the gimp and immediately feel as if I'm back 
playing Adventure - "You are lost in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."

It's not the gimp - I can easily replicate that behaviour in any graphics 
package you'd care to name. I don't like that series of "dummy" books, but 
for me to do graphics stuff I'd need a book with some sort of exponent on 
the word dummies :)

I was using a web service to get some titles made for a page at work and 
was hoping I could find some filter I could run them through without me 
having to actually try to edit the image.

Thanks for all the feedback, I'll try to look for a step-by-step tutorial, 
a different web service, or make the page background white :)