[WEB4LIB] Re: Paint Shop Pro Transparent Images

[TMGB]

It loooks like all that paintshop does is give you a one color background to
simulate transparent backgrounds which is okay if you have a solid color
background already on your WEB page.  But, on our page we use a watermark which
can be seen under the menu text using Photoshop or Photoline with a true
transparent background.

mtcw
Thomas

NCM Ross wrote:

> 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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> Graduate Student, SLIS University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
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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



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