Skinning Panels Question

[Jayhawk]

Ok, brand new to skinning but am giving it a shot.  I've been trying to follow Krusty's directions as best I can.  Anyway, I've got a layer where I traced the "panel lines".  I used a one pixel brush with pure black as the color.  He suggested using the opacity to "soften" the panel lines, however when I try and lower the opacity I see no change until I drop below 50%, then it just disappears.

So I hope I made that clear and I'm betting I'm just missing a simple point.  I tested this in game and it's the same thing, all or nothing, all over 50%, none under 50%.

By the way, I'm using GIMP.

Thank You

[Krusty]

Couple of things...

Make sure you're lowering the opacity on the proper layer first.

Then, if you're clicking and dragging the slider and not seeing much change, it might be processor/memory lag. Put it at a point in between (75% ?) and wait a few seconds afterwards to see if it's just applying it slower than you were sliding it.

And then finally make sure your layer mode is "normal" -- it might have some funky mode where the opacity fades in a non-standard manner. You can change the mode later on to "multiply" or "screen" or whatever you want. See if it works on "normal" for now.

I just did a test file in 2.6.7 and it worked fine for me.

[Jayhawk]

Yikes, who knows what I did. 

Everything was right but still had the problem.  Played around on a new file and got opacity to work just fine so I have no clue what I did to mess up the file I was working on.  I'll see what I can salvage and probably start anew. 

Thanks Krusty.

[Motherland]

Go to image>mode and make sure that it's on RGB and not indexed. It is on indexed by default sometimes when you open the textures.

[Jayhawk]

Motherland with the save!  Thank you sir, that worked.