Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Steve Croteau wrote:

> 1)Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency.
> 2)Use gif or png instead.
> 3)To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to 
> indexed.

s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct.


Michael

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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a 
> transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I 
> would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site 
> allowing the background image to show around the text. ?
> 
> I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. ?Every 
> time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. ?How do I 
> get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?
> 
you don't.  jpegs were not designed to handle transparency.

try png.  all of the colors of jpegs and tranparency as well.

carol

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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
On Sunday 10 July 2005 3:25 pm, Andreas Waechter wrote:
> > I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo
> > on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web
> > site.
>
> Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg
> doesn't support transparency.
>
> > I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. 
> > Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. 
> > How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?
>
> Use a different file format (e.g. png or gif support
> transparency - where png's transparency is not fully
> supported by Internet Explorer, IE only uses transparency in
> png in indexed mode)
>
> Andreas
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Andreas,
Thank you so much!!  So just to sure I understand:

1)  Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency.
2)  Use gif or png instead.
3)  To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to 
indexed.

Correct?

Steve
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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a 
transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.  


Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg 
doesn't support transparency.


I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue.  Every 
time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background.  How do I 
get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?


Use a different file format (e.g. png or gif support 
transparency - where png's transparency is not fully 
supported by Internet Explorer, IE only uses transparency in 
png in indexed mode)


Andreas
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[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
Greetings,
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a 
transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.  I 
would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site 
allowing the background image to show around the text.  

I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue.  Every 
time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background.  How do I 
get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?

Thank you in advance?

Steve Croteau
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