Does GIMP treat alpha channel as any other channel (i.e. you can paint on it, draw text on it, copy from it, paste to it, view it etc.), or does it do
all the horrible mess of treating it as a second class citizen, as most
other image programs do?
Re: TDA 1.6 - Menu queries ... TDA 1.6 does not allow transparency!... I do have GIMP installed,... It opened OK but its single layer had a bizarre ... a transparent background and somehow add an 'alpha channel' to it. ... (rec.video.desktop)
Re: Mixing (blending?) two bitmaps ... #4 Draw the original image which has it's new alpha channel settings... ... Find great Windows Forms articles in Windows Forms Tips and Tricks ... without touching the RGB channels - but I have to go meet my parents ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.drawing)
Re: Wierd problem when alpha blitting image with text in it ... everything not explicitly drawn into must have a zero alpha channel because ... impossible to composite two such images, and I'm starting to think that this ... The reason we want to draw into the secondary image and then composite it is ... so that we can apply a constant opacity to the subsequent layers, ... (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.gdi)
Re: Objects with individual alpha ... However, from what I understand, you create a new backbuffer for every ... On the backbuffer *one* object is drawn and the buffer is ... GDI clears the alpha channel of any pixels it draws. ... each time you draw to it scan the alpha channel for any values of 0x0 and replace those with the object alpha. ... (microsoft.public.vb.winapi.graphics)
