making a transparent png
Hi all I am having real trouble making transparent pngs. My lovely airbrushed art is turned into ugly solid (opaque) colour when I save as a png. Is there a trick, or a RightWay, to make these things? Maybe I have some broken software, I am running gimp as per suse 6.4. Any ideas? --Ben
Re: making a transparent png
Ben Skelton wrote: Hi all I am having real trouble making transparent pngs. My lovely airbrushed art is turned into ugly solid (opaque) colour when I save as a png. Is there a trick, or a RightWay, to make these things? Maybe I have some broken software, I am running gimp as per suse 6.4. What are you trying to view it with? Netscape does not properly display transparency in pngs. Mozilla does. Any ideas? --Ben -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft != Innovation
Re: making a transparent png
I just tried viewing a `transparent.png` in ee version03 and it showed up transparent. Ditto in ImageMagick 4.2.9 display. Most of my images are created with GIMP. .^. Ryan Neily /V\ // \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX /( )\ ^^-^^ http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Art/Neily POWERED On Sat, 20 May 2000, Ben Skelton wrote: On Sat, 20 May 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: Ben Skelton wrote: Hi all I am having real trouble making transparent pngs. My lovely airbrushed art is turned into ugly solid (opaque) colour when I save as a png. Is there a trick, or a RightWay, to make these things? Maybe I have some broken software, I am running gimp as per suse 6.4. What are you trying to view it with? Netscape does not properly display transparency in pngs. Mozilla does. I have tried viewing the png in ImageMagic's display, sketch, and various kde graphic tools. ee displays nothing. The only app I have which displays gimp greated pngs correctly is gimp. Could I have a broken libpng? Does gimp use this or its own? --Ben
Re: making a transparent png
- Original Message - From: Ben Skelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 6:14 AM Subject: making a transparent png Hi all I am having real trouble making transparent pngs. My lovely airbrushed art is turned into ugly solid (opaque) colour when I save as a png. Is there a trick, or a RightWay, to make these things? Maybe I have some broken software, I am running gimp as per suse 6.4. It depends on what your're using your images for. It sounds like you are seeing your images in 1 bit transparencey rather than full transparency like in GIMP. Is that correct? If it is correct, there isn't all that much you can do about it. If you are doing airbrushing on a transparent image and then viewing it with a program that only supports 1 bit alpha then you'll have to add a background layer and flatten the image in GIMP so that your airbrushing shows up as a color gradient rather than an alpha gradient. --Ben
