On 05/27/2010 02:00 PM, niski wrote: > W dniu 2010-05-27 22:38, Tom Williams pisze: >> On 05/27/2010 12:51 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> >>> Quoth Frank Gore<g...@friendlyphotozone.com>: >>> >>> >>>> There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really >>>> a Gimp >>>> thing: >>>> >>>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ >>>> >>>> >>> Many thanks to all respondents. >>> >>> It turns out there are two kinds of transparency; binary& alpha >>> channel. IE6 >>> can handle binary but not alpha channel. >>> >>> Something I read next (I forget what/where it was now) made a link >>> between >>> 'binary' and 'indexed' (neither term really meaning anything to me) >>> so I used >>> Gimp to creat a new image, chose to fill it with a transparent >>> background and >>> then switched to Indexed mode (as opposed to RGB or Greyscale) >>> before exporting >>> to PNG, and it worked! >>> >>> So, in short, if you want your transparent PNGs to work in IE6, >>> switch to >>> indexed mode before you export... it really does seem to be as >>> simple as that. >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >> Can't doing this result in some loss of image quality? Sometimes I'll >> make PNGs with a drop shadow and transparency and when I convert the >> image to indexed mode, the drop shadow quality suffers. >> >> Peace... >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> Gimp-user mailing list >> Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user >> >> > Opacity in indexed mode is binary like in GIFs (that is, any pixel is > either opaque or transparent but not e.g half-transparent)... If you > really need to have PNGs with indexed opacity in IE6, you have IE6 > filters (they are written in CSS files) at your disposal. If you know > you won't have any gradients or anything like that under the shadow, > you can just cut small part with background and shadow over it. > > Best regards, > niski
Thanks for the info! :) Peace... Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
