{"id":668,"date":"2007-11-20T23:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/transparency-made-easy-in-the-gimp-via-colour-to-alpha"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:36:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:36:21","slug":"transparency-made-easy-in-the-gimp-via-colour-to-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/transparency-made-easy-in-the-gimp-via-colour-to-alpha","title":{"rendered":"Transparency made easy in the GIMP via Colour To Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been playing around with The GIMP (about time), and one of the most useful features that might need to be drummed in, is for creating transparent images. 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