Well, I found it .. sorta. When using Adobe ImageReady there is a checkbox for transparency in the optimize tab. Next to that there is a dropdown menu labeled "matte" You can select from a variety of things like foreground color, background color, white, black, Netscape grey, 50% grey, etc. Now this is where it gets cool. When you save an image with transparency it adds the "Matte" color into the anti-alias so things blend smoothly. Fig1. Screengrab showing an example of Matte http://obscura.obscurasite.com/images/screengrabs/matte.png You set your "Matte" to the background color of your web page and you get great looking transitions. Every time I write a post to gimp-usr or gimp-devel I wondor if the functionality is already in the gimp... and it usually is, but I didn't know where to find it. Here goes... How do you control the "Matte" when saving images with alpha in the Gimp? Thanks in advance. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ "Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
