Good GIMP Book?

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.9K blaze of typing glory, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> >It is hard to believe that Gimp was tested with casual users when it was
> >being developed. I wouldn't waste anytime on it gimp unless you want to
> >be a developer.
> 
> Well, I'm a developer; but not a GIMP developer. And I'm a sub-amateur 
> when it comes to artsy stuff and graphics so I need something that can 
> be made to do simple manipulations without having to go away to a 
> mountain in Tibet for 3 years.
> 
> >Are you sure the background is white after being exported from 00 ?
> >Maybe it just looks white.
> 
> Yes it's definitely white. For the moment I'll just keep it on a white 
> background until I can learn the chant for GIMP or admit defeat and load 
> up Fireworks.

My trick in GIMP for this is to select the white, invert the selction,
cut the selection, create a new image with a transparent background, and
paste the selection. Voil?!

Kurt
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