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Federation Shipmaster
Kai Tak Pilot
Member # 15

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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?

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The Vorlon
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Member # 52

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PSP5.

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Baloo
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Member # 5

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You can do it in PSP4 as well.

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Michael Dracon
aka: NightWing or Altair
Member # 4

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I haven't seen the feature in PSP4, but PSP5 has the it: Colors => Set Transparancy (or something like that).

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Fabrux
Epic Member
Member # 71

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Actually, Ulead has a program that can convert images as PNG files, it's called iPhoto Plus 4.

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Captain Stark
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Member # 70

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Where are the instructions to create transparencies in PSP 5?

Thanks

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Pedro
Ex-Member

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They're probably under the Options button in the Save As dialog, that's where they are in PSP4.

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Cargile
Nobody Special
Member # 45

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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!

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Federation Shipmaster
Kai Tak Pilot
Member # 15

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There is an options button, but it's "greyed" over, i.e. I can't access it.

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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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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Federation Shipmaster
Kai Tak Pilot
Member # 15

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Thanks, people. I just downloaded PSP5. I'll figure it out.

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