Hi Dan, gimp users,

I am trying to make an image with the main part of it as a white object and everything else transparent. I've followed tutorials and examples on how to do this (add alpha channel, select the background color, delete it) and it works fine if my object is not white, but if it is white then it, too, becomes transparent. When I look at the image in IE it looks OK but, used in an OpenGL application, it is just a blank image. I have a different white transparent GIF that I didn't create using GIMP, and it behaves as expected (white where it should be white, transparent where it should be transparent). I do not understand the difference between the two and was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. I am using GIMP 2.6.4 on Windows XP.

Did you find a solution? If so what was it?

Otherwise, I just tried the following:

1. I open a photograph. 2. Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel (or right-click layer ...). 3. For a test, I did a rough selection with the Free Select Tool. 4. Dragged white to the selection.
5. Select > Invert.
6. Hit the "Delete" button.

I wonder if you checked out: Layer > Transparency > Color to Alpha