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Post by Heather@Amnezia on Aug 19, 2004 11:56:42 GMT -5
Another tutorial from Raven's Petz Place, also very useful for making the backgrounds of pictures transparent, so that they look right with your layout! Click here.There are other ways to do this so if you know of any more then please share them with us!
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Post by Heather@Amnezia on Aug 19, 2004 12:12:56 GMT -5
This is usually how I make the background for pictures of single petz transparent.
Open the picture, select the magic wand tool. Click on the white area of the picture around the pet to highlight it. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+I all together to invert it (you can also go to 'Selections' and 'Invert' at the top menu). I then press CTRL+C together to copy the highlighted area which should now be the actual pet instead of the white area which was first highlighted. Then I press CTRL+V to paste the copied selection as a new image. It should have a grey and white checkered background which means it's transparent. I then go to File>Export>GIF Optimizer and export it as a GIF with 'Existing layer transparency'.
In the GIF Optimizer window you can click the 'Use Wizard' button if you need a little more help, just be sure to export it with it's existing transparency.
I find this way very easy for single pet pictures, and for getting rid of the background on them so that you can insert them into litter pictured etc.
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Post by tamsinluver on Oct 18, 2004 19:47:19 GMT -5
Thank-you so much Heather! This really helped me! ;D
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Post by Lauz on Dec 29, 2004 20:47:55 GMT -5
This is how I do it... it's gonna sound confusing without pictures, there's a tutorial at my site, which is down at the moment ... boy, am I annoyed with my host >.< But that's free website hosting for you...
Anyway.
Open the picture, and select a colour hardly used. Select the Flood Fill tool and colour the white area pet that colour. Eg. If I chose bright green as my colour, my Pet would now be on a bright green background. On the Palette, make the bright green colour you chose the secondary/background colour. Go to Image --> Palette -- > Set Palette Transparency on the top bar. Choose the second option (it should make the bright green transparent), and click 'OK.' To view the transparency go to Images --> Palette --> View Palette Transparency.
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Post by stregha on Mar 22, 2005 12:32:24 GMT -5
wow. i posted a thread about this somewhere else. and all this time... *smack self* ok, next time, ill read around.
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