Orange crush
More dabbling with paint programs. The background is from SUMO Paint. I wanted to “title” the image with my Alien glyphs, but obviously I can’t just click the Text tool and type the stuff in. The trick is layers, and to make layers work, I need a transparent background. It turns out that I can generate transparent pixels programmatically by setting the alpha value equal to zero. (Alpha is like a fourth color, along with red, green and blue.) So: generate the glyphs with a transparent background and import into a new layer. Put the glyph layer on top of the image layer so that the image shows through the transparent pixels. Combine the layers.
Then I switched to GIMP and added my favorite goose. Similar terminology compared to SUMO Paint, but different enough to be confusing.