[WEB4LIB] Paint Shop Pro Transparent Images

[NCM Ross]

Kitty,

I have had reliable results getting transparent gif images in
Paint Shop Pro 3 and 4 and 5.  In PSP 5, open the image,
select the Colors menu and select set palette transparency.
In the menu box choose "set transparency to current background
color". Click okay. Then use the eyedropper tool to select the color
you want to be transparent. Right click the eyedropper tool on that
color (e.g. on the white background). That makes the selected color the
"background".  Thensave the image in gif format. Choose file, save as.
The choose Compuserve Graphics Interchange (gif). Then in the save-as
box click on options. Select  version 89a. Click okay.  That should do
it. 

If you have version 4, the procedure is very similar. The exception is,
don't
use the Colors menu. Click on File, the Preferences. Then choose file
format 
preferences. Then click in GIF. The click on "set transparency value to
background
color". Then do the same thing with the eyedropper tool as described above.

Nancy
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NCM Ross, Ph.D. University of Chicago 1983, Human Development           
Graduate Student, SLIS University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee   
http://www.uwm.edu/People/ncm2/index.html                
Research Consultant, Office of Research and Evaluation, Alverno College   
Email: nmuch at execpc.com;  Email: ncm2 at csd.uwm.edu                       
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On 10/6/98, at 3:54 PM, kschweyer at gph.com wrote: 

>Fellow Web4Libers:
>
>Has anyone had success an creating transparent images using Paint Shop Pro

>so that the background of the page becomes the background of the image. I 
>have set the image to be transparent but when I put it in a web page it 
>displays with a white background. As I want my image to be words I can't 
>really crop it to get rid of the white. Could the settings on my monitor 
>have anything to do with this?? I'd appreciate any and all comments. 
>Thanks.
>
>
>Kitty Schweyer
>kschweyer at gph.com
>Boston, MA