image-editing question

[cimorene]

someone--elfiepike?--how do you make transparent gifs? you know, so you can have an icon with pieces cut out, and the background shows through them?

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[loreleif.livejournal.com]

It depends on which program you're using, but the basics are this:

Create your picture, and make all the areas that you want to be transparent a colour not used in the rest of the picture (hot pink seems popular; I generally go with lime green).

I use PaintShop Pro, so the rest of the directions are for that, but hopefully they'll translate if you're using something else:

From the "Color" menu, choose "Set Palette Transparency". That will open a box to let you know it's got to change the picture to 256-colour format. Just click OK.

Next, it will ask you what colour you want to be transparent. The easiest way to answer this is to click the colour somewhere on your image.

If it pops up any other boxes, just click OK.

After that, if you want to check that it's worked, you can go to the "Color" menu again and choose "View Palette Transparency".

Hope this helps!

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

MWAH!

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

Eew, Cim-cooties! -g-