Re: [kidsgames] picture format

[Brian Minton <minton@csc.smsu.edu>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, William Kendrick wrote:

> > 
> > I don't see the relationship between the eraser and the transparency ...
> 
> When you use GIMP's eraser tool on a layer that has an alpha channel, it
> will erase through, using the alpha channel to show what's behind the layer
> (or, if it's the bottom/only layer, the checker-board behind the image).
> 

the checkered pattern is the way the GIMP lets you know that that part of the
image / layer is transparent.

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