[SlugBug] GIMP help

[Bruno Postle]

On Thu 02-Oct-2003 at 11:40:10PM +0100, Alan Dawson wrote:
> I'm trying to do 2 things in gimp
> 
> 1.  paste a new image into a layer.  I've opened the image,  cut
> the section from it, and pasted it into first gimp document .. but
> it appears as "pasted layer" in the layers window. How do I get
> into a "proper" layer

In the layers window, click on the new layer button and it will be
promoted to a layer.

> 2.  I'd like to select a background colour and make it
> transparent.  How do i do that?

There's a good tutorial for that here:

    http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/

-- 
Bruno