Why can''t I control the Alpha channel in GIMP? I''d like to be able to assign it a value from 0 to 255. Why can''t I do this? What''s the best way to use GIMP & alpha in harmony? -Forcas "Elvis is alive. He is Barney the purple dinosaur. He is the pied piper that leads our children into the wages of sin and eternal damnation."

Oh, that''s easy

You just have to create a so called ''layer mask'' and draw on it, paint, cut, paste, apply filters or whatever else you can think of..

I don''t have much time now to explain it, so I''ve just made a quick screenshot to show you how to do it:



Hope that helps...

btw. It''s always handy to have that ''layers and channels'' dialog onscreen.. you really can do everything with those layers.