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bluflamez09
06-28-2005, 02:10 PM
Well here I am, asking stupid questions again and I only bother real people when I can't find my answer on the web.
I have an image I would like to put on my site. My problem is that the background of the image is white! That would look really bad against a textured background... my goal is to make the parts that are white, clear so that the textured background will show through parts of the image.
I'm sure I can't so something like this with MS paint or anything, and I know I'm going to have to put a lot of time into it, but what ever gets it done, I'll do.
Thanks a million, these forums save my ass on a daily basis. Can't tell you how much it helps!
nachan
06-28-2005, 10:00 PM
If you have an image editing program other than MS Paint, like Paint Shop Pro or Photo Shop you can make your image into a transparent gif. It works a lot like a bluescreen does in movies. Usually, people will pick a bright, unusual color for the background that isn't found anywhere in their pic (such as lime green) so no parts of the actual pic are made transparent. Then there should be a tab somewhere (in Paint Shop Pro it's under Image>Palette>Set Palette Transparency) and you choose that background color to become transparent. After you save, all the parts that were set to be transparent will be.. transparent/invisible! It's pretty neat once you do it. It tends to make edges a little jagged and pixelated though, since you're only making one value transparent. Good luck, if you have any more questions, keep posting on this.
Sanim
07-01-2005, 02:11 PM
Nachan: you'd want it to be a transparent .PNG, not a .GIF. .PNG is for transparency.
BeachSide
07-01-2005, 10:01 PM
as soon as png is supported in all the browsers and it doesn't make HUGE files sizes I'll start recommending it :( Until then I'll stick with .gif
Sanim
07-01-2005, 10:58 PM
PNG is supported in any browser I've ever used.
chong
07-06-2005, 11:46 PM
PNG is supported in any browser I've ever used.
Not in IEWindows
http://entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans/
Robert Wellock
07-07-2005, 06:04 AM
PNG-8 is supported in all modern graphical mainstream browsers and nearly always produces a SMALLER FILE size than the outdated *.gif
However, most Image Editing Programs make a hash of PNG compression thus I would suggest people use PNGOUT to reduce the filesize even more typically it will reduce filesize by 5% http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm