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Making your sig bg transparent
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:48 am
by Cyndaine
okay um i make it transparent on photoshop (its the checkered bg right?) but when i actually post it on a forum the bg is white and rlly ugly...so if anyone knows how to fix that pls tell me! thnax
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:50 am
by Shimohime
did you save it as .gif?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:52 am
by Cyndaine
no...does it have to be gif?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:57 am
by Cyndaine
but the thing is photoshop doesn't have the gif option
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:22 am
by Shimohime
save as >> .gif
.jpeg does not support transparency. only .png and .gif support transparency, however, internet explorer render .png files incorrectly. therefore, your only choice is .gif.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:39 am
by taintofsleep
oh, thats why... lol
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:46 am
by Cyndaine
yeah, i went save as> filenamehere.gif, but it doesnt work cus in the drop down section where u choose the format gif isnt one of the choices
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:29 am
by 5m0k3
save it as a .png
thats what i do
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:09 am
by CrimsonNuker
5m0k3 wrote:save it as a .png
thats what i do
Perfect example of why i dont do it, his sig
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:28 pm
by Geedunk
CrimsonNuker wrote:5m0k3 wrote:save it as a .png
thats what i do
Perfect example of why i dont do it, his sig
Lol - png is the way to go. Better quality than jpg, but a bit bigger, and it supports transparent backgrounds.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:29 pm
by naljamees51
i usually save all my images in png
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:55 pm
by Cyndaine
okay, but even i DO save it as png it still doesnt work
grrr this is frustrating!
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:30 pm
by Geedunk
My internet just shut down -_-
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:59 pm
by Shimohime
use .gif. I know .png is better quality, but .png doesn't work in internet explorer...
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:10 pm
by Mage Pker
use .png, .gif takes forever to upload
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:14 pm
by WrathShielder
Cyndaine wrote:yeah, i went save as> filenamehere.gif, but it doesnt work cus in the drop down section where u choose the format gif isnt one of the choices
I haven't reinstalled my photoshop since the last time my harddrive bit the big one but can't you save it as a .jpg and then open it in something like IrfanView and then save it as a .gif or will it lose the transparency in the transition?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:01 pm
by Geedunk
Shimohime wrote:use .gif. I know .png is better quality, but .png doesn't work in internet explorer...
1) My IE shows it fine
2) Your IE sucks
3) Microsoft sucks
4) .gif sucks.
Comprende?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:24 pm
by Shimohime
Wow, I have a sig. You know, on a browser, I can so totally tell the difference in quality between a .gif and and a .png
/sarcasm
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:02 am
by Cyndaine
geedunk: thats exactly what i did, like what you did in ur tut (even though i didn't need to know cus i already knew what ur were telling me to do)
MY PROBLEM is that even if i do save it as png it still doesn't work. ugly white bg comes up.