Good GIMP Book?

[Joel Hammer]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:51:11PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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?!

Is there a way to select by color?

I got the same result by:
1. Starting a new picture with a white backgroud.
2. Entering my text. This is automatically on a new layer.
3. Deleting the background layer to get a transparent backgound.
     To get to the correct menu for this, you have to use the file
     command in the main menu widget, it seems. File/Dialogs/Layers.

4. Save as png or tiff. (There is no gif option in my gimp.) You will have
to export it, no big deal.

Joel