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Posted by AnotherWay83 on May-17-2003 19:27:

question for the photoshop gurus

just a quick question, is it possible to make non-rectangular bitmaps with photoshop??...like, bitmaps of different shapes and such that would appear as they are, not inside sum rectangle...?

thanks

Posted by KilldaDJ on May-17-2003 19:37:

photoshop is shit

lol

use psp7 instead, it better

u want shapes? save as a transparent gif

Posted by Spad on May-17-2003 19:41:

Re: question for the photoshop gurus

quote:
Originally posted by AnotherWay83
just a quick question, is it possible to make non-rectangular bitmaps with photoshop??...like, bitmaps of different shapes and such that would appear as they are, not inside sum rectangle...?

thanks

KillaDJ is correct on all counts.

Posted by DigiNut on May-17-2003 19:53:

Uh no he's not, PSP is a piece of made-for-the-computer-illiterate junk, and those who've bothered to actually learn how to use Photoshop will know this.

Anyway, in Photoshop, if you want transparency just export to GIF89a format... usually that's under file->export.

As a general rule, there is absolutely no way to do this without transparency in any program, unless you save it in a vector format (like WMF, but in which case it would not be a "bitmap" at all).

Posted by AnotherWay83 on May-17-2003 20:28:

hmm...i need it to be a bitmap, tho...GIF wont do it for sum complicated reasons...there is another way i can do it but it's gonna be a headache...oh well

thanks for the replies

Posted by DigiNut on May-17-2003 20:36:

Bitmaps are by definition a raster-form graphic on a rectangular canvas. In order to save a "shape" you would need vector information, so I don't think that what you want is possible.

Sorry 'bout that.

Posted by AnotherWay83 on May-17-2003 20:55:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
Bitmaps are by definition a raster-form graphic on a rectangular canvas. In order to save a "shape" you would need vector information, so I don't think that what you want is possible.

Sorry 'bout that.

i am currently looking into the format for DIBs and DDBs (device independent and device dependent bitmaps) and there is a provision for leaving pixel values undefined. im assuming that when the bitmap is displayed on the screen, what's under these undefined pixel values stays unaffected, so that the bitmap can have the random shape...

also windows provides APIs that let u create ur own bitmaps, u can use paths, convert them to filled regions and so on

of course these are just ideas, i really dont know if they'll work, i'll just have to find out for myself

Posted by KilldaDJ on May-17-2003 20:59:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
PSP is a piece of made-for-the-computer-illiterate junk

Posted by Neo nEro on May-17-2003 21:25:

what does the abreviation PSP stand for?

Posted by fede on May-17-2003 21:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Neo nEro
what does the abreviation PSP stand for?

Pain Shop Pro

Photoshop is much better imo, but psp is still a very good prog..

Posted by jdat on May-18-2003 01:01:

quote:
Originally posted by ShyTrance
Pain Shop Pro

Photoshop is much better imo, but psp is still a very good prog..

PSP is just a copy of Photoshop