Sorry to hear your problems.

Do you have the image as a background or is it done with layers?

If it is on the background try looking at http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html if it is possible to sort things out.

Usually you should use a layer for alpha channel and never only the background, since that (especially if you choose a color that is most used to alpha) makes that color transparent and so those parts of the image become "invisible" although they for the program do still exist).

Hope that helps. I have not used much alpha channel but when I have I have always used it to a background layer before aplying copied the my image to a layer above the background.

Good luck, Heikki Jussila

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On 18 September 2014 19:34, Martin Mciver wrote:

Hi There,

Please I hope you can help. I spent hours cutting out an image, I added the alpha channell when I was done, and it seemed to delete the image I need and left the background which I do not need.

I have tried everything, including undoing my history through the edit panel.

Is there any way to retrieve my image? I still have it selected, but the cut out shape is just showing as Alpha Channel.

I will not close GIMP until I get a reply, so please help - Massive Thanks in advance

All the best,

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Please I hope you can help. I spent hours cutting out an image, I added the alpha channell when I was done, and it seemed to delete the image I need and left the background which I do not need.

There are a couple of things you can do. First, save the file in progress with some name like Recovery.xcf, so things can't get worse than they are now.

Then fix it the simple way:

Do Edit > Undo, or Control+z, and check your results. Keep doing this until the image content you deleted reappears. Then, odds are that doing Select > Invert, followed by Delete, will give you the results you wanted.

A slightly less simple way:

Add the original image file you started with to the image in progress as a new layer. Select the layer that the content you wanted to cut out vanished from, and in the Layers dialog do Alpha To Selection. In the main menu do Selection > Invert. Then select the layer that is your original picture, and do Control+x (or Edit > Delete) and you should get the result you originally intended.

:o)

Steve

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