MyEclipse Image Editor - Layers and Transparency
20090330 at 20:23 
using MyEclipse Image Editor. Surprisingly, it has layers, transparency, gradients. It also has some serious bugs though. Beware that “transparency” (non-rectangular favicon or “desktop icon”) only seems to come out via the .PNG format option… I wasn’t so lucky exporting to .GIF or Photoshop formats.
If you look closely, you’ll see I should have feathered the magic wand selection - but that’s really true alpha channel support which I don’t expect to find in free software anyway. If you work at a high enough source resolution, the scaled-down web versions will be good enough.
Note: found another Flickr bug! .PNG transparency supported only at THE ORIGINAL SIZE,which means their “size conversion software” is badly broken.
Flickr you so crazy is the tag I’m using here and on Flickr to describe Flickr frustration. I’m not mad at Flickr… I’m just telling the story as I go.
Use Firebug inspector to see that the image really has transparency. Note the light yellow background color in the tooltip display of the image.
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