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Posted by Haunted on Aug-12-2002 00:54:

Graphics question

ok was wondering when you make a graphic.. how do you make the background transparent? so that the background becomes whaterver color the background of the page is? like swamper's

im using adobe photoshop.. I deleted the background layer.. i made a couple dunno why they wont work.

Posted by igottaknow on Aug-12-2002 01:29:

in PS 6 all you have to do is delete the areas you want transparent (checkered bkgd) and save as a gif and PS will take care of the rest for you.

In older version of PS you needed to export as gif 89a and select the color which would be transparent.

Posted by Fir3start3r on Aug-12-2002 01:30:

I'm no Graphics expert but I believe that the picture has to be in GIF like this one

If the question was regarding your sig, your sig is not in GIF format...

Posted by Haunted on Aug-12-2002 01:40:

looks crummy how come swampers looks so goood

Posted by zzleeper on Aug-12-2002 02:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Haunted

looks crummy how come swampers looks so goood

Because he deleted the white small pixels that make the image crummy

Posted by Haunted on Aug-12-2002 03:06:

grrr

Posted by Haunted on Aug-12-2002 03:19:

what the fuck i dont understand this
i made the background black.. then i zoomed in and took out all the white pixels.. then i take out the black layer and now its transparent.. i save it
and its the same
wtf?!@!

background black.. no white pixels

Posted by Fir3start3r on Aug-12-2002 04:39:

Maybe it has to do with the fact that it's pumkinshiteorange?

Posted by Fraggle on Aug-12-2002 06:03:

ya, to make transparent pixels...has to be .gif file

i think there's a couple of other formats that support transparency, but gif is most popular

anyway, to make transparent bits, has to be a different colour to any other colour within the image...usually bright pink/green or something that stands out, so when u're creating the image u *know* which parts will be transparent

...the trick is when u save the file...save it as a .gif file...but most paint programs should allow you to choose transparency when u save as gif...then all you have to do is choose the colour you want to be tranparent & viola!

...note...gif files have to be 8-bit palatte, so i think that limits it to 256 colours...and you just choose one colour from the 256 colour table to make transparent

hope this is comprehendable

Posted by Fraggle on Aug-12-2002 06:13:

hmm...okay...here's one i made transparent in case i wrote it so nobody could figure out

Posted by TranceSeeker on Aug-12-2002 07:48:

Save picture as gif and check transparant background

Posted by Haunted on Aug-12-2002 14:13:

thanks!

Posted by eXeTik on Aug-12-2002 15:38:

It also depends on the font, the less curvy it is the better it looks... Also, I don't use PSP- though I know you have some option that smoothes those pixel automaticly.