How do you get the backgrounds of your image to be transparent? Can you do it in MSPaint or PSP3, or will I have to get PSP5?
Posted by The Vorlon (Member # 52) on :
PSP5.
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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :
I haven't seen the feature in PSP4, but PSP5 has the it: Colors => Set Transparancy (or something like that).
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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Actually, Ulead has a program that can convert images as PNG files, it's called iPhoto Plus 4.
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Posted by Captain Stark (Member # 70) on :
Where are the instructions to create transparencies in PSP 5?
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Posted by Pedro on :
They're probably under the Options button in the Save As dialog, that's where they are in PSP4.
Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
Fed, If you are refering to that shareware version of PSP I found out how to set the transparency by looking in the help file, but I shall devulge my knowledge to you absolutely free!
Save As. Chose GIF. On the right of the save window there will be a OPTIONS button. Press it. Don't be shy. It will open another window with four--yes four--transparency manipulation options. The two you want are the bottom ones: Set background color to transparent, or set transparency to (0-255) the later being transparent.
Okay now, have fun!
Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :
There is an options button, but it's "greyed" over, i.e. I can't access it.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
In PSP5: Go to the "Colors" menu and select "Set Pallette Transparency". Either that, or just hit Ctrl+Shift+V. It's pretty self-explanatory from there.
BTW, it seems you cannot do transparencies w/ greyscale images. Could this be your problem?
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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :
Thanks, people. I just downloaded PSP5. I'll figure it out.
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