i searched high and low for a thread about this so i apologize if it has already been discussed and i just missed it.
my problem is that i want to create an image that has a transparent blur. i don't mean that i want layers underneath it to bleed through, that i can do. i want to make it so that when the image is placed, say, on a web page, the background of the page will show through the blur. that's probably a terrible explanation so below are images to demonstrate what i mean.
this is what i have in paint.net:
and this is the same image on a web page:
they are GIFs so i didn't think this would be a problem.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks