Chris Brown (cfreak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Lately I've been having problems using filters on transparent backgrounds. > Today for example I was trying to use FlareFX. I wanted the background > transparent, the flare shows up in the preview but after clicking OK > nothing shows up in my image. Is this a bug or a feature? I've had this > problem with other filter commands as well. I'm using Gimp 1.2.0 The FlareFX filter does not work correctly on Alpha images. You could try to render the flare on a black background and then do a <image>-> filters->colors->colortoalpha. This may give better results. Bye, Simon -- Simon.Budig@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/