Hi Stephen, Stephen J Baker wrote: > What GIMP does now is just fine - what might be nicer would be some kind > of toggle to temporarily show the entire image as opaque (without actually > destroying the value of the alpha buffer). Raphaël will probably kill me for advertising a feature he considers a bug, but anyway... you can now do this by converting the alpha channel to a layer mask, and hiding the layer mask in the usual manner. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: bolsh@xxxxxxxx