flatten image to transparent

[rich2005]

Quote:..snip... that annoying yellow and black band around your image when you expand the canvas and still preserve the transparency

That annoying yellow & black edge is the indicator for a layer boundary. If you use layers with Gimp (and you should) it is very necessary. However toggle it on/off in the View Menu -> Show layer boundary. There are other indicators as well and they are controlled in the same menu.

[grasshausstudios]

(07-18-2023, 07:01 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(07-18-2023, 01:51 AM)grasshausstudios Wrote:

Quote:My question(s) is/are then:

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Is there a way to make the image not loose the transparent background, ie
use something other than Flatten Image

Thanks so much for your time,

kumado

thank you for this opportunity to contribute

there is a way to expand the layer to the canvas size so you don't have that annoying yellow and black band around your image when you expand the canvas and still preserve the transparency

1. make a new layer

2. move the original layer above the new layer

3. flatten

voila!

If Flatten is Flatten image then you lose the transparency. Perhaps you meant Merge down.

But Layer > Layer to image size does it in one step...

weird. it wasn't working before but now it is. thanks. sorry for the spam.