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How do you make an image transparent? I want to change the bg color on my website, the glaring white is a bit harsh, but then I'm left with a big white square around the logo. The only image programs I have are Paint and Corel Photo Center (?)

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Post the image maybe?

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....... or post it to me, I know how to do it, but I have no idea how to do it using Paint or anything by Corel.

You're probably wanting to make a .gif, which supports transparency, maybe with a "matte" matching the background of the website. A .png is also an option.

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If you could do that for me, I'd really appreciate it...here ya go.

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hmmm didn't work
lemme try something

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ah, there we go

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It might look a little rough around the edges, depending on the background colour.

That's when "matte" comes into play, or maybe redo the text.

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thanks

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Use the gimp. It's powerful, does transparent images, available on most any platform and renders most any image type, and it's free.

http://www.gimp.org/

and some fun tutorials:
http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials
http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/.../textmanip.html

In this case I took your image, opened it with gimp, selected the "Layer" menu (from the menus above your picture), selected "Transparency", selected "Add Alpha Channel". Channels are like color elements for a picture and by default they come with red, green and blue (unless your picture mode is greyscale). Alpha is transparent and isn't there by default most of the time. When you add it, then you can remove the color you want.

Select the eye dropper from the GIMP tools dialog and click on the color you want disappeared. By default it will set the foreground color of your paint palette to this color (in this case white).

Click on "Bucket fill" from the GIMP tools dialog. You will see a "Mode" drop down box and a couple of buttons marked "FG color fill" and "BG color fill". Make sure FG color fill is selected. Click on the "Mode" control. Select color erase. Click on whitey. (your background)

Voosh, most of the work is done. Use the magnifying glass to zoom in on any parts that ook funny and clean it up.

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Vyper is a woman. She already knows how to get men to fish for her.

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and the proof is right here in this thread

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It's been my experience that women don't use computers, nevermind fish.

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