Alpha channel PNG's

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Hi there!

I have just started out, and I have read a few tutorials. My ultimate goal is creating an animation for my junior secondary schools movie competition. I would like to use this program in a combo with Blender 3D (for some objects), and Wax Debug for some after effects. If this program is really what I want it to be, I might end up using it in the future to! :wink:

Although I have grasped the basics, images stil seam to be a blur to me. When I import a PNG with an Aplha channel, Synfig ignores it and instead I get a lovely black background where the alpha channel should be. In the tutorials I watch the alpha channels are imported with the .PNG

Could someone please enlighten me on the subject :unamused:

(If it makes any difference I am using a program called Pixelformer to create the Alpha channels.)

Thanks,
Kiezza

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Hi Kiezza,

I’m no pro but I’ve been having good luck with my png’s created in gimp. Can you reply and attch one of the images that’re giving you problems?

[edit] I searched for images created with Pixelformer. This page says this image was created with Pixelformer. I import it into Synfig and its alpha layer seems OK. I’m using Synfig 0.63.00 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.

[another edit]Using the most probably troublesome options in gimp…
-Save background color (on)
-Save Gamma (on)
-Save color values from transparent pixels (on)

I go to the Caret Menu > File > Import and get a nicely alpha’ed image.Screenshot.png
[final edit] I’ve played with all .png options in gimp and can’t get Synfig to choke. What are your system specs? (OS, synfig version, etc.)