Text w/Transparent Background

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Allen Flick
Nov 8, 2004
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Something tells me this is so easy that I’ll be laughed at, but be that as it may ’cause I’m an extreme newbie.

I want to create a textual jpeg that I can place at various spots on my web page and have the background be seen through the text. I chose at some point "Transparent" but it doesn’t seem to do any- thing.

How is this done?

Thanks for your help.
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Monty Jake Monty
Nov 8, 2004
JPG’s do not support transparency. Save as a GIF or PNG.

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From: Allen Flick
Organization: Alumni – University of Texas at Dallas
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop,comp.graphics.apps.photoshop Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 20:47:27 GMT
Subject: Text w/Transparent Background

Something tells me this is so easy that I’ll be laughed at, but be that as it may ’cause I’m an extreme newbie.

I want to create a textual jpeg that I can place at various spots on my web page and have the background be seen through the text. I chose at some point "Transparent" but it doesn’t seem to do any- thing.

How is this done?

Thanks for your help.

N2
November08.2004
Nov 8, 2004
in article , Allen Flick at
wrote on 11/08/2004 12:47 PM:

I want to create a textual jpeg that I can place at various spots on my web page and have the background be seen through the text.

JPG does not do that.
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sdft
Nov 8, 2004
i think he wants partial transparent text so the background can be seen through the text.

is this the same sort of thing?

i know about making transparent gifs but thats just the bit around the image as far as i know.. can you make the image itself partially transparent?
N2
November08.2004
Nov 9, 2004
in article KvTjd.256$
wrote on 11/08/2004 3:42 PM:

i think he wants partial transparent text so the background can be seen through the text.

is this the same sort of thing?

i know about making transparent gifs but thats just the bit around the image as far as i know.. can you make the image itself partially transparent?

You will have to save the background with the foreground. It will all have to be one image, background and Translucent letters.
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edjh
Nov 9, 2004
sdft wrote:
i think he wants partial transparent text so the background can be seen through the text.

is this the same sort of thing?

i know about making transparent gifs but thats just the bit around the image as far as i know.. can you make the image itself partially transparent?
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Gadgets
Nov 9, 2004
jpgs in a web page can be made partially transparent with IE’s filter:opacity, but it would apply to the whole pic, not part of it. Other browsers would show it 100% opaque.

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