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Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

From peter@easthope.ca
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.
Date 2019-08-16 20:00 +0200
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From: Dan Ritter 
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:26:18 -0400
> Set the background to transparent.

Menus: Layer > Tranparency > Add Alpha Channel. The new viewer remains 
black.  Might be transparent. Might not.  (If all else fails, will see 
what happens when the arrow is dropped on the image layer.  If the 
result has the appearance of the arrow layer, the arrow background is 
not transparent and my image is obscured.)

Really I don't understand the representation used in GIMP. From what 
I've read, there are three channels, R, G, B.  OK.  Plus an optional 
4th, alpha. What is it?

What is the point of alpha? Transparent should be simply no marking.  
RGB = (0,0,0). What does alpha represent?  

Thanks,                         ... P.

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Arrow annotation in GIMP. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-08-14 04:00 +0200
  Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP. Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-08-14 14:30 +0200
    Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-08-16 20:00 +0200
      Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-16 20:30 +0200
  Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP. Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-08-14 18:50 +0200

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