Sigma 210492 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 make an image appear without a backgound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Use the magic wand tool to select the background. Press the Delete key on your keyboard. Save the image as "GIF" format. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 or PNG format....PNG has lossless compression (which is gooood). Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 GIF is lossless as well but PNG offers better compression and an alpha channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinSoldier Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 PNG has partial transparency as well... (that is-- a true Alpha channel). Unfortunately until IE7 is widely adopted IE6 doesn't work properly with PNG transparency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 1) GIF is not lossless. It saves with a set 256 color palette, which results is dithering. (Dithering bad! :wink:) 2) PNG does work in IE7, but IE7 does not work in any Windows version pre-XP so as long as there is a userbase using Windows 2000 or earlier, web designers worried about accessibility will still have to shy away from PNG. But yes, to answer the question, just save the file as GIF or PNG to preserve transparency. Any areas where the checked pattern is seen will be transparent in the output. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Actually, technically GIF by itself is lossless. However, quite often imaging programs must convert their images to 8-bit before running them through the GIF compressor. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Rick, and most browsers interpret the image blocks as seperate frames for animation display Truecolor GIFs are actually possible (though not feasible): http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Joey, I know what an animated GIF is. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Joey, to make it an animated GIF file, you have to save it in a program that allows that, GIF can do a bunch of stuff, but if you are going for best quality matched with best transparency, PNG are the best to use...They may be a little bigger, but When I am using anything transparent, I use PNG. If I used GIF for this image I made the other day... The only thing I did in photoshop was the text, so sorry if you get mad at that barkbark - apologizing early. If I used a GIF for that transparency, I would have a white oval around my transparency which is less than I believe 50% or 35% If you take that image and save as a GIF, you will see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 The only thing I did in photoshop was the text, so sorry if you get mad at that barkbark - apologizing early. Yeah, Forgive me for my "programism". I have no problem (I guess...) with anyone using PhotoSlop...But it is good of you to let us know when stuff is made using the afore mentioned program. Kudos RaveN... Ps. How did you do that faded edge? Looks neat. Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Actually, technically GIF by itself is lossless. However, quite often imaging programs must convert their images to 8-bit before running them through the GIF compressor. Okay fine! GIF is lossless Indexed, but Indexed is usually lossy. Is that more correct? :wink: Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Okay fine! GIF is lossless Indexed, but Indexed is usually lossy. Is that more correct? :wink: Nope The data going in to the codec is saved losslessly. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 It took a bunch of layers, and a bunch of tweaking, but use the feather tutorial that trickman made...It helped a bunch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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