stupid transparency question

i have looked at every where i can think of and i am really lost...

i can get the image to have a transparent background and looks fine in PS7
but whern i try to use the image ie to put onw ebpage it still has the white
background - i've saved as both GIF & JPEG...

I am losing the plot now so any help would be appreciated - especially an
idiots guide version.

thanks




anam

i have tried that and saved it for weba bd saved it as gif... it all looks
fine in photoshop but when you try to use it it doesn't keep the transparent
bit...

"Tom Thomas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "anam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >i have looked at every where i can think of and i am really lost...
> >
> >i can get the image to have a transparent background and looks fine in
PS7
> >but whern i try to use the image ie to put onw ebpage it still has the
white
> >background - i've saved as both GIF & JPEG...
> >
> >I am losing the plot now so any help would be appreciated - especially an
> >idiots guide version.
>
> Do you suppose that the option "Save for Web" might have some
> function? Hint -- JPG does not support transparency. That means
> you'll have to use GIF. There is a checkbox for "Transparency" .... I
> wonder what that does?
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> Tom
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"anam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>i have tried that and saved it for weba bd saved it as gif... it all looks
>fine in photoshop but when you try to use it it doesn't keep the transparent
>bit...

Did you check the box for "Transparent"?
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"anam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>yeap - soem seem to work and others don't - i'm losing the plot with ti
>totally

Well then, try creating an image on a transparent background and use
"Help > Export Transparent Image" .... that is as simple as it gets.

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"anam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> i have looked at every where i can think of and i am really lost...
>
> i can get the image to have a transparent background and looks fine in PS7
> but whern i try to use the image ie to put onw ebpage it still has the
white
> background - i've saved as both GIF & JPEG...
>
> I am losing the plot now so any help would be appreciated - especially an
> idiots guide version.
>
> thanks


I have P6 so I don't know if it's the same for PS7 or not...

1. What I do is change the image to indexed color (click on
image>mode>indexed color) because that's what a gif is...
2. Then I choose what I want to be transparent (click on select>color
range)...
3. Make sure fuzziness is at 0 and the selection button is picked and not
image...
4. Click on the color in the image in the photoshop window that you want to
be transparent...
5. Go back to your color range pop-up window and click on the eyedropper
with the plus sign...
6. Go back to your image and drag your curser along the color you want to
be invisible (so you get alot of the little color pixels chosen), you should
see in the pop-up window your image taking shape...
7. Then click and drag on the fuzziness bar until your image is crisp (or
as crisp as possible)...
8. Click the OK button in your pop-up window so it disappears...
9. You should now have marching ants all around the color you want to
disappear...
10. Now click on your eraser and erase the color you don't want to it
becomes transparent...
11. Click on Help>Export Transparent Image and follow the wizard...
12. Save as a gif (you could go png though I find it doesn't always work)


Hope that helps!

Babs

>1. What I do is change the image to indexed color...
>[snip of 11 more steps]

You go through all that work to make a transparent GIF? My God! Save for Web is
SO much easier.

When you use Save for Web, whatever is transparent in the original image stays
transparent.You create the image with a transparent background in the first
place, and it remains that way.

You MUST save the image as a GIF--JPEG does not permit transparency.



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> You go through all that work to make a transparent GIF? My God! Save for
Web is
> SO much easier.

Yes, "save for web" is easier... She's obviously learning, I thought it
would be nice to show her some extra steps... Someone else had already said
"save for web", I just thought I'd show her a different way to do it...
Those steps come in handy and hardly take any time at all...

> When you use Save for Web, whatever is transparent in the original image
stays
> transparent.You create the image with a transparent background in the
first
> place, and it remains that way.

What if she did not have a transparent area to start with? I showed her how
to make it transparent... Creating from scratch is one thing, modifying an
image is another...

> You MUST save the image as a GIF--JPEG does not permit transparency.

I never said anything about a jpg... I did mention png though...

Babs