bradhayashi Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I'm a newbie to Paint and I want to create a line of text to place on a webpage. I would like to just have the text so that when I paste it to the webpage, only the text is visible and that there is no box around it but rather the webpage's background. I've searched this forum and can't seem to find anything specific to what I want to do and I'm not understand the process of using the Magic Wand, Layers, and possibly this Alpha Mask plugin. Can you please tell me what to do? Thanks, Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 If you want it to look really good, enter the text and save it as a PNG. If you save it as a GIF, it wouldn't look good because there aren't too many colors. EDIT: My "chart": Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 OK, but how do I get just the font with no background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Oh. To do it the fastest, Press Ctrl+A, then press Delete. You should now see a checkard background. That is the transparent stuff. Now select the text tool, select the font, font size, and anything else you want to customize, then type. Ta Da! You now have text in a transparent background! Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 OK, tried that. Now I get a light blue background in the box on the webpage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Show us and we'll fix it. Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 Here is the url: http://www2.visalia.k12.ca.us/mwhs/vapa ... ont_1.html [/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Looks fine to me. I don't see a "blue background"... This is what I see: So, what's the problem? Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Maybe he's talking about the blue tab? Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 Huh. I don't get it. I'm glad that's what you see. How do I post a gif of what I see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 I know what your talking about as I have seen it before. Let me guess you can see your a light blue that is also see through right ? Your using IE also and it not IE 7 right ? In my HTML class at college a guy had this problem were his transparent images had a light blue background to them. We tryed to fix it but could not. I went home and made an image my self with a transparent background and uploaded it to one of my websites. Image background was transparent and looked ok. When I got back to college and upload the page the transparent background was light blue. We found that all computers had this problem were there clone's. We belive the problem is with an older version of IE. If you are using IE then make sure your updated to IE 7 (IE 7 looks like FireFox). If that don't work try FireFox. It not Paint.NET or the image it is your web browser. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 Hitman-X, Yep, you are absolutely right. I am using IE 6 on my laptop and I just went to our home computer using IE 7 and it looks fine. But how do I do this so that it is compatible with any browser? Is it a matter of using a different imaging program? Or is it not possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 No problem... save as "GIF" instead of "PNG". Problem solved. (Compatibility--Just one more reason idiot fan-boys can shut the hell up about PNG being superior to GIF. ) You know, in your original post title, you asked about "GIF" and then saved in "PNG" format... Could have saved yourself a lot of time Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 Yes, thanks, BoltBait, that did the trick. Hey, thank you to all in this forum for such great help and speedy support! I appreciate your time and expertise very much! Regards, Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Heh. No problem. Sorry if I sound grumpy. My program is still not working... Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Compatibility--Just one more reason idiot fan-boys can shut the hell up about PNG being superior to GIF. PNG will take over the world I tell you, the world hahahaha. umm I got to go study . PS: happy you got it to work out for you. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhayashi Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 You know, in your original post title, you asked about "GIF" and then saved in "PNG" format... Could have saved yourself a lot of time Yeah, but in the second post, usedhonda told me to save it as a PNG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 That's because he's a PNG fan-boy. Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 PNGs have a higher quality, but take more space. GIFs have a much lower quality, but is sooo much smaller. If your just using one color, then I'd guess it's okay to use GIF. If it were a picture or something with a gradient, save it as PNG. Note that GIFs have only one transparent color while PNGs have as many as it wants. EDIT: That's why I'm a PNG fan-boy. Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Note that GIFs have only one transparent color while PNGs have as many as it wants. To further elaborate, every pixel in a 32-bit PNG has an alpha value that determines how transparent it is. The first 24-bits are for the standard red, green, and blue -- and then the last 8-bits tell the application how much to mix that color with the pixel that's already on screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing 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...
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