Like he said, changed it to RGB if it's not already. in the layers toolbox, right click on the layer and in the menu that comes up click "add alpha channel". Then use the eraser tool on the area you want erased just to see if it works.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM, norman <
norman@...> wrote:
> Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. Select the white
> region by color. In the Layer -> Transparency menu, add an alpha
> channel. In the same menu, set "Color to alpha". This should make the
> white background to transparent.
I selected the white region by colour and in the Layer-> Transparency
menu added an alpha channel. However, the set Colour to Alpha setting
remained greyed out of action. What have I missed, please?
Norman
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