Ever since my early teens I’ve been an avid fan of the Street Fighter series. Too many college lectures were missed as I was in situ at my local arcade playing SSFii or some bootleg Hyper version. (Remember the fireballs that would bounce across the screen?) 70 British pounds I paid for an extremely rare import copy of the first Sega Megadrive (aka Genesis) console. I then had to wait…

I’m very much not a graphical person but when forced to dabble in any kind of image manipulation have always tried to use The GIMP, over any commercial offerings. Just this afternoon I’ve spent some time trying to make the background of a very simple image transparent. The image is a filled shape on a white background. I wanted the white background to be transparent. I think I’ve finally found…