[jasonN]

Hi all, I need to know how to make an image like this tyransparent:


I read a tutorial somewhere but it said that I have to specify and background colour. But I want to make it transparent so it will match any background. Does anyone have any ideas?
I know I have to cut it out and paste it into a new image with transparency on, but what do I do after that?

-Jason

[faustgfx]

ever hear of .GIF 's?

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[jasonN]

Yeah I tried making it a transparent gif with an adaptive palette and 256 colours, but it turned out terrible and when I put it into a webpage, the outline was all jagged and plagued with white pixels.

[milesg]

well, the best thing you can do is match the BG color of your image, to the bg color of your website... Then when you make a gif out of it, you will have a very close match, and you won't even to be able to see the "jaggies"... Unless of course you have a varied color BG, in which your pretty much out of luck...

Hope it works out...
Miles

[faustgfx]

or you remove antialiasing by hand.

magic wand selection the background, goto quickmask, ctrl-l the antialiasing away, then to normal mode, and clear the antialiasing away with the selection.

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[Nex]

I'd probably do what milesg said because you can have antialiased borders then.

I made the same for a splash on my webpage [shameless plug ahead: http://on.to/nex ]



[This message has been edited by Nex (edited March 25, 2001).]

[Ben Barker]

I can't wait until everybody uses PNG, if it ever happens at all.