[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.  I would like the black text to float above the background images on my site allowing the background image to show around the text.  

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency. I'm doing fine with the whole process except the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
On Sunday 10 July 2005 3:25 pm, Andreas Waechter wrote: I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency.

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote: Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I would like the black text to float above the background images on

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Steve Croteau wrote: 1)Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. 2)Use gif or png instead. 3)To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to indexed. s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct. Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org | IRC: