[Gimp-user] Making a .gif file transparent

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 08:49 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

> You can do all this in three steps:
> 
> 1. Open the GIF image
> 2. Convert to RGB colors (Image->Mode->RGB)
> 3. Copy the image (Ctrl+C) (no need to select it beforehand)

Actually, you can also skip step 2 as pasted content is automatically
converted to the colorspace of the target image.

You could even do it all in a single step by simply dragging the GIF
file from your file manager to the RGB file that is already opened in
GIMP.


Sven