Alez
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| posted on 16/4/04 at 02:36 PM |
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"Transparent" avatar pic / GIF?
Chaps,
I've seen many of you have a small "transparent" pic as avatar, I guess it has to be a GIF in order to get transparency, right? Good
examples that come to my mind - Jasper's, Hellfire's..
What tool did you use to generate it? Jasper's surely comes from a photograph..
I'd like mine to look neater, without a background.
Cheers,
Alex
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ChrisW
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| posted on 16/4/04 at 02:42 PM |
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Alez
First off, yes, it does need to be a .gif as .jpg doesn't support transparency in the same way.
You can use Paint Shop Pro to do it (www.jasc.com)
-'paint' everything you want to be transparent with a nice bold colour (bright red works well).
- reduce it to 256 colours (.gif only supports 256). this is in "colours -> decrease colour depth -> 256 colours"
- choose "colours -> set pallete transparency" and click the bold colour you painted in. When you hit ok the bold coloured area will
disapear
- save as a .gif file and you're done.
It takes a bit of practice to get it right! 
Chris
My gaff my rules
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Alez
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| posted on 16/4/04 at 03:06 PM |
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Excellent, many thanks Chris!
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