Gimp New Image With Transparent Background. When you make the image background transparent you can use the colour according to the background of the new image. Transparency support supports digital image compression with transparent regions.
Sharp edges and strong colors perfect for text line arts and graphic images. To export an image with alpha transparency you must have an alpha channel. I m trying to learn scheme script fu for making some gimp scripts.
In the drop down menu select an image to open and click open.
The new layer shows up in gimp but it is always filled with black. Adding a transparent background using gimp. When i create a new layer on opened image it adds a black background color even though i call gimp drawable fill layer transparent fill and add afterwards the new layer to the image. If you have any questions or comments regarding this tutorial or the program used just add them to the section below.