Something i didn't know you could do with banners.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

I downloaded my banner to use as a splash and look what happened to the bg.

Pretty sure that isn't the bg i created it with. :lol

It is actually my own theme bg from Metallic Blue Licorice.

EDIT: So upon browsing to my "splashes" folder and looking at the banner image i downloaded it has a solid black bg.

Uploaded here it has transparency. I know GIMP will normally use white as a bg on splashes with transparency so what the heck is going on here? Does GIMP use the theme bg instead of white now?

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:25 am **(#2)**

That's interesting. Is that your theme color?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Wallace wrote:

That's interesting. Is that your theme color?

Yes it is "Metallic Blue Licorice" you can get it here.

http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4784

The funny thing is some of my splashes open with the theme and some with a white bg. :lol

Weird.

paynekj · **Posted:** Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:36 am **(#4)**

If your splash image has transparency, then your theme will show through:

Attachment:

Untitled.png [ 60.87 KiB | Viewed 2527 times ]

Kevin

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

paynekj wrote:

If your splash image has transparency, then your theme will show through:

Attachment:

Untitled.png

Kevin

Very cool. But sometimes my images that have transparency use a white bg. They are all the same extension by the way "PNG".

paynekj · **Posted:** Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:56 am **(#6)**

Rod wrote:

Very cool. But sometimes my images that have transparency use a white bg. They are all the same extension by the way "PNG".

On the "problem" ones I'd check the export settings. These are the settings for my example above:

Attachment:

settings.png [ 33.58 KiB | Viewed 2516 times ]

Kevin

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

paynekj wrote:

Rod wrote:

Very cool. But sometimes my images that have transparency use a white bg. They are all the same extension by the way "PNG".

On the "problem" ones I'd check the export settings. These are the settings for my example above:

Attachment:

settings.png

Kevin

Oh yes i bet you are correct.