Matthew Bloch (mattbee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> After some struggle I got it to work as expected; this may have something
> to do with the fact that I was just guessing :-) I think the sequence of
> events, taking it from where my RGB image was on a transparent background,
> was *) flatten image, *) add transparent layer, *) select the non-masked
> area of the image, *) cut, *) convert to indexed, *) save as GIF. And
> then it looked fine. But it still seems like quite a convoluted way of
> doing quite a common task if you start with an image with a transparent
> background.
Try the <Image>/Filters/Colors/Semiflatten Plugin.
It reduces the Alpha Channel to a one-bit alpha channel and merges
the current Background color in the not fully transparent areas.
Bye,
Simon
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