"Rebecca J. Walter" wrote: > > it might be useful if the color to alpha filter could a) interact with > the color picker or b) pull the information about the image background > from the color tool stuff and use that as the color to replace. it isnt > easy for a lot of users to select the color in the color selector > without being able to pull that from the image. > i just told a user how to use color picker to get the color code and > enter that in the selector. it works, but it would be nicer if this > tool were more user-friendly. I tried this: Open image Select Filters->color-to-alpha, popup appears Select color picker, another popup appears Get colour from image, it shows up in the color picker popup Drag the colour to the color-to-alpha popup Select OK You can also drag'n'drop colours from palettes and the Gimp main window. Is that what you mean, or do I misunderstand the problem? Lourens