Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-15 Thread Uwe Koloska
Am Montag, 12. März 2001 21:59 hast du geschrieben: > If you want fading to backgroud, you are basically out of luck until PNGs > are more fully supported. (GIFs don't work because it only has > transparency on or off, no fading). > > What I now do is have a GIMP XCF file with the "top" layer fad

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Seth Burgess
There's a couple of scripts that take a background color (or layer) and make a thin halo around your transparent image. This won't make a smooth gradient, but if you have some idea what your background is going to be it looks great. Even against a patterned background the human eye is quite forg

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jason P. Holland wrote: > [...] Why would it behave this way? Appearently full PNG support is uneven in browsers. > i could use jpg, but i like the quality of png better. And JPEG doesn't support any transparency. If you want fading to backgroud, you are basically out of

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Jason P. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In > netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at > http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like > it would work. thanks for

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Koos Pol
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:58:18 -0600, Jason P. Holland said: | Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In | netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at | http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like | it would wo

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
yeah, i loose to much when i save it as a gif. and i was trying to move to png, with all the license issues involved with gif. png is just better. but if browser support is sad, i should forget it. i would rather crop off the edges and not have to deal with the background looking different in e

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Lee
Carl Constantine wrote: > > On 3/12/2001 07:35, Carl Constantine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 3/12/2001 06:58, Jason P. Holland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In > >> netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black.

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Lee
i like the quality of png better. > > I appreciate all the help! > > > > Jason > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Jeffrey Goldberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:11 AM > > > To: Jason P. Holla

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
cool! that is a good idea. if every browser displays my transparency different, i really don't have a choice though. thanks everyone for the suggestions and help! Jason > > I just thought of another approach, since the graphic looks > quite nice with > the exception of the boarder around the

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Constantine
On 3/12/2001 07:35, Carl Constantine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/12/2001 06:58, Jason P. Holland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In >> netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at >> http://jholland

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Lee
I appreciate all the help! > > Jason > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jeffrey Goldberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:11 AM > > To: Jason P. Holland > > Cc: 'Rebecca J. Walter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Constantine
On 3/12/2001 06:58, Jason P. Holland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In > netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at > http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like > it would

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
; From: Jeffrey Goldberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:11 AM > To: Jason P. Holland > Cc: 'Rebecca J. Walter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png > > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jason P. Holland wrote: > >

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jason P. Holland wrote: > In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In > netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at > http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. Opera (for Linux, v5-beta6) gives a black background. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg I have rece

RE: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
Thanks for the quick response. In IE 5.5, the background is light blue. In netscape 4.76 on my linux box, its black. the graphic is at http://jholland.nichware.net/alivepreview.html. i have no clue. seems like it would work. thanks for the help. Jason > > If you unchecked the save backgrou

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
If you unchecked the save background, it should have been fine. Which means your problem is probably not in GIMP but rather with using a browser that isnt fully alpha-in-png compatible. If you have a link, maybe some of us could take a look and see if it is fine in another browser. _

[Gimp-user] transparency with png

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
hello all, i need a bit of help saving a png graphic with a transparent background. i have some a simple text graphic i want to use on a webpage, transparent in gimp of course. but when i go to save it, either it saves it with my background color, or an off blue color. i have seen the png opti