![]() ![]() You should now see a white box directly to the right of your image thumbnail in the Layers panel (red arrow in the above image). Click the “Add” button at the bottom of the dialogue (blue arrow). In the Layer Mask dialogue that appears, under “Initialize Layer Mask To:” select “White (Full Opacity)” (green arrow in the above image). ![]() You can also right-click on the image layer and select “Add Layer Mask.” To add the layer mask, click the layer mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel (red arrow in the image above). This will allow you to non-destructively add a “transparent” gradient to your image. With your alpha channel added, next what you’ll want to do is add a layer mask to your image. This step is important because without an alpha channel added to your image, your image will erase to a color rather than to transparency. To do this, right click on the image layer over in the “Layers” panel (red arrow) and click “Add Alpha Channel” (green arrow). With the image imported into GIMP, you’ll now want to complete the important step of adding an alpha channel to your image layer. I recommend hitting “Convert” (red arrow in the above photo) unless you need to keep the image’s original color space for a specific reason. Once your image is in GIMP, you may get asked if you want to convert the image to GIMP’s native sRGB color space. You can also simply drag and drop your image into the main image area of GIMP (follow the red arrows along the green dotted line in the image above). You can do this by going to File>Open, and selecting the file location on your computer. To start, you’ll want to import your image into GIMP if you haven’t already.
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