In article <S8p4g.5630$>,
"John Russell" wrote:
I want to put an image with a faded edges on a Web page that is textured. It doesn’t seem to work so well because there is some white space around the image.
Short answer: Don’t. (In fact, avoid textured backgrounds whenever possible. They are almost always a distracting nuisance.)
Long answer:
Only GIF and PNG images can be transparent.
GIF images have "all or nothing" transparency. You can not have translucency, so you can not have an image that fades out. You can simulate this effect, kinda sorta, by instructing Photoshop to dither the transparency in the Save for Web dialog, but the result doesn’t look very good.
PNG can have full, gorgeous, beautiful transparency, including translucency. However, Microsoft, which is a large computer software company staffed by idiots, imbeciles, and incompetents, does not support PNG transparency in Internet Explorer without some fancy trickery that may or may not always work. So it’s not a good bet to use, since for some unfathomable reason I will never discover, many people still continue to use Internet Explorer.
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