GIMP Success

Well, just a little bit of success anyway. I finally managed to cut out a shape with a transparent background! I will be posting a tutorial with these steps on www.nuthouse-scraps.com in the help forum, but if you see this and can't wait, check out www.gimptalk.com. They have a ton of tutorials and help topics. They too seem to be geared toward the graphic designer, not the scrapbooker, so my mission continues.