wilton

It worked!! Thx!

New user: I erased the background (BG) on the image I have so it is transparent. Saved as PNG. Now how do I put the new BG? Can u walk me thru it pls? I know I have to get the new BG on an active layer. Then, do I copy the FG (Foreground) image and paste somewhere. IOW how to merge the two? Must they be same size etc? TIA Wilt

thx for the help

Thx for speedy reply & welcome! At the risk of sounding stupid, aw who am I kidding, my question might have taken care of that (self deprecating laugh)! My mission right now: I have a lot of b&w strips that I need to colour. Best and most efficient way to do that? Like I said, autofill too time consuming cuz i have to go thru the artwork and close up all the open shapes etc. Can I not somehow have a layer BENEATH the BG layer and colour THAT layer? It seems that I can't do that (i've tried by moving layer 2 ABOVE the BG layer). This way the black line art does not get obscured by the colour. Ah I want to get past this insanely fundamental thing and get creating!!!!!!!!!! (and yeah i save the original artwork thx) Cheers Wilt

New to the program, but can u correct what I must be doing wrong? I am starting to colour some old line art (cartoons) but can't get any (eraser, brush etc) tools to work on the non background layer. I could just auto fill on the background but that is too finicky, too many open shapes that end up filling the whole page in that colour! I want so that I can colour in indiscriminately w/o worrying about covering my lines. IOW How come I can't get so that when I erase, I don't get the transparency checkerboard underneath? I put the BG layer on top then the erase tool does not work! What fundamental thing did I forget? Thx Wilt