On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chetan Dhavse wrote: >Can someone explain me what is a channel (alpha,etc) >why and when it is used The alpha channel is used for layer transparency. Tha alpha value specify for each pixel how much transparent should be. However I think that this question should have been posted to gimp-user. ;) Regards, Marco -- //\/\ Marco (LM) Lamberto e-mail: nOsPaMz-lm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove 'nOsPaMz-') The Sunny Spot - http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/