On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jon Winters wrote: > 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. > Use plug-in-semiflatten to flatten only pixels that aren't completely transparent against the current background color. I don't think this is exposed in the menus (at least I have never found it in 1.0) so I have a small script-fu to add this (see below). -Dave http://www.flamingtext.com/ ; SEMIFLATTEN ; Flattent pixels that aren't completely transparent against the background ; color. ; (define (script-fu-semiflatten img drawable) (plug-in-semiflatten 1 img drawable) ) (script-fu-register "script-fu-semiflatten" "<Image>/Script-Fu/Modify/Semiflatten" "Flatten pixels that aren't completely transparent against the background color." "Dave Bonnell <dbonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" "Dave Bonnell" "2000" "RGB RGBA GRAY GRAYA" SF-IMAGE "Image" 0 SF-DRAWABLE "Drawable" 0 )