Hi Gea-Ny, To save an image having a transparent background in Chimera 1.8 use File / Save Image… and click the "Transparent background" option in that dialog. Tom On Oct 30, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Gea-Ny Tseng/FS/VCU wrote:

Dear Chimera developers and users:

I would like to know how to make the background of Chimera-generated images transparent . I used to be able to do this with an older version of Chimera. But with Chimera 1.8, I could not figure out how to do this. There are options in the 'Color/Background' to adjust 'Opacity', which to me means that I could make the background transparent by using 'zero'. But this did not happen. Could you please advise?

Thank you.

Gea-Ny Tseng, PhD Dept of Physiology & Biophysics Virginia Commonwealth University _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users