[Gimp-user] Make transparent layer invisible‏

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 21:23 -0400, Adonj Adonj wrote:
> I use the GAP player when I need to.
> Saving to PNG will have layers merged or flattened. That doesn't work for animations.

Yeah, you have to save as MNG instead, I'm pretty sure.  But MNG
probably isn't supported in web browsers all that well.  I assume you're
trying to do this for the web or you wouldn't even consider GIF
animations.

> Saving as GIF is my final result.
> To demonstrate the problem I'm having:
> In my animation I have two identical frames of an object surrounded by a transparent background which is represented by small gray squares. If I move the object slightly in one frame, then play the animation, and detach the image, then drag the image which is now stepping from one frame to the other to the desktop screen, the area around the object which has had the object displaced, shows some of the gray squares each time the image steps to this displaced image frame.

Yeah.  As far as I know, that's how it works.
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Michael J. Hammel                               
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