[Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior

[David Hodson]

Elwin Estle wrote:

> Now for the weird part.  If I turn off "use alpha" in the Blender texture file options, the entire, original image appears, it's as if the .png file was saved out just like the original picture, without any renders cut from it, etc.

As far as I know, the alpha channel in both Gimp and png files is 
non-premultiplying. (In other words, it's what many people would refer 
to as a matte channel rather than an alpha channel.) The colour channels 
are not affected by its presence. If you turn it off, the colour is 
still there.

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David Hodson  --  this night wounds time