I'm trying to make a small filler with a 65% transparent background for the web. I start with a 10x10 transparent background, color it the color I want, then fade it to 65%...but when I go to save it as a GIF, it turns the color solid with no transparency.
Am I doing something wrong? I've changed around the color modes and I still get the same results.
Thanks for any help you can give!
#1
That's not really transparency, it's translucency (is that a word? <g>)
In the GIF format a pixel can be transparent but only 100%.
Bob
#2
Well....crap.......is there any image format that will support "translucency"
#3
You could try PNG. I'm not sure about which browsers support it right now.
Bob
#4
I'm sure IE does....maybe Netscape....don't know about other browsers.
#5
You can try to fake the translucency by bringing the background (or part of it) into your image, and changing the opacity of that layer. Then align it in position on the rest of the background.
#6
MR,
If I recall correctly there was a set of commands appliable in Internet Explorer that did something like that. You may make a search in the Web by "Internet explorer filters <
http://www.mompswebdesign.com/browsers/iefilters.html>".
However, bear in mind that those filters are propetary tags and that they'll work only in Explorer and that they do not adjust to any standard but Microsoft's will.
That is: I'd not use them even if IE is the King in the Lonely Mountain.
#7
PNG Browser support <
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngstatus.html#browsers>. A bit out of date, but the PNG Homesite should be a good jumping off point for more info.
From the page linked:
" Is there any hope? As of mid-2002, things are actually looking quite good--with the continued exception of MSIE for Windows, of course--and the rating has moved up another notch. (Even with MSIE/Win32, one minuscule ray of hope poked through the clouds in 2001. It appears to involve rewriting web pages specifically to force the use of an alternate, DirectX-based rendering engine within the browser. This is exceedingly gross, since there's nothing end-users can do about the vast majority of pages that are not rewritten this way. But on the plus side, it seems to be compatible with normal browsers. See Erik Arvidsson's how-to for details.)"
#8
PNG is still not properly supported in MS Interner Explorer.
#9
I'm sure IE does....
IE does not support 24bit PNG transparancy natively, only 8 bit, in which case you might as well use GIF.
M
#10