opening the image leads to funny action - cannot see any thing but a black box

[sallyanne]

hm strange, some programs show transparency as black but you should display a checkered background in gimp to show transparency. What mode is your picture? Greyscale, indexed, rgb, or other?
To check this, once you have your picture opened in gimp, check 'image' in the top menu - mode and if it is any other put it to rgb. Oh, and make sure you have an alpha channel too. right click on your picture in the layers dialog and add alpha channel.
Found this here
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-gimp-r...d-to-black