[lug] transparent images

[Scott A. Herod]

"Kenneth D. Weinert" wrote:
> 
> 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 :)
> 

Hello Ken,

  I am in the same position with gimp.  At school I used a utility,
giftrans,
to switch one component of a gif to transparent.  I know GIF is anethma
in
linux world but you might find it useful.

Check http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/tools/graphics/giftrans/

I have no idea whether it is possible to convert the transparent gif
to something else.

Scott