Preserved Topic: cant figure out this transparent stuff (Page 1 of 1)

Why cant i get my transparencies to work! ..I dont know what im doing wrong ..chose transparent ...did my sig...but it ends up with like some kind of default white background or something.

well... this is how you do it, the basics atleast. it sould be easy, index it choosing the least amount of colors you can with it still looking "good".
go to file/export/gif89a export...
click on the colors that you want clear and save it. when you put it on a web page it sould be clear although it will not look clear in a picture viewer.... if you already knew that then... ah... i would be cunfusededed.


[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 29-09-2000).]

I didnt understand that.. lol

That is one way to do it. Another is in Photoshop 5.x youcan select Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to Save for Web. Select GIF and go to the Matte setting there. Play around here, and you can find your correct setting. (Image Ready does the same thing) I usually matte out to what the background color will be. In The Asylum is a blend of both the light and dark background.

what verson of photoshop are you useing?
I have 5.0 so i have to do it the hard way.
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insanity will rule

I have 5.5

Hey megai send me your project file for that sig I will set the background to transparent for you no prob.

how am i suppose to send it? Do you have icq?

email works, just use the "letter" icon at the top of his post.

send to sean@bynevex.com

the easiest way to do it is set your gif's background color to your page background color. this is the important part: set your color mode to indexed and after it asks to flatten it, make sure the checkbox for transparency is on. export it as a gif and it will give you an eye dropper to pick the color you want as transparent.

I guess I am wierd....I do it different. I dont flatten it...but I delete the background later. I then go to File, Export, and then Gif98a or whatever it is. I click on the gray color box and enter the RGB value of what I want the transperant color to be.....Seems to work OK for me.

if you use the method i described, you can choose more than one color as transparent :-)

Tiz a way cool Sig anyways megai

I save for web as GIF, transparent, no dither, 0% loss, 256 colors, and use a color a tad bit lighter than #240000 for my matte.

Also it's a good idea to start by filling the first layer with the average intended background.

the two colors for the forum are:
#240000 and #380303

Can you familiarize me with the gfx terms? What is matte?

Yah vas is dis matte zat you zpeek ov ?

? ... Come te llamas! Burrito! Bunghole! bahhh <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

weadah..weadah..weadah ..oh yea ...what font do you use? it always looks really good when its really small ... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif"> Its probably some huge ass smacking secret right? <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Don't tell anyone but until this afternoon I did it by hand. Pencil + zoom. Now Ive got F1's nifty font pack, I'm using those fonts and just going in with the pencil to clean up the odd spacing n shtuff. too easy. =)

Did you get your transparency working ?

One of F1's fonts below -

yup it was pretty easy too. Just didnt realize it ...didnt you see the "BWAHAHA" post? Oh guess it wasnt well defined <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">