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samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 22:41
hiya
I need help:searchme:, i'm trying to get the text transparent on my banners.
Leanne managed to do one:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/willitallendintears3.gif

but mine keep turning out like this, and leane cant remeber what she did:rolleyes:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/Image7.jpg

its only the text that hasnt got a transparent background the rest has

thanks for any help, I hope this makes sense

CrazyLea
20-04-2007, 22:47
Ermm, don't know if this will work - as I haven't tried it.. but have you tried..

When you click new, when you're putting the attributes in, theres a box thing where you can pick "transparent" or something else.... make sure it's on transparent...

If you've tried it then I don't know. If you don't get me, then I'll open up my PSP to explain better...

You did mean PSP didn't you?

samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 22:54
Ive tried that, and i have psp and photoshop so whatever, I just want it to work lol

Jessie Wallace
20-04-2007, 22:57
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/JessieWallace33/Pictures%20for%20Soap%20boards/Image1-1.jpg

Make sure you click on the bottom one to the two, plus i'm not sure it works for all the fonts, so you might wanna check that out too, i can't remember.

CrazyLea
20-04-2007, 23:04
Or another way (if Dawn's doesn't work).

I just had a go.. and when you've done the banner..instead of "merge all", do "merge down".. if you get me? If not, just say..

samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 23:12
Hiya
ive tried both ways and it didnt work, am i doing something wrong?

CrazyLea
20-04-2007, 23:15
:hmm:. I dunno. I'll do some screen grabs of what I'm doing, then you can see if you're doing the same..

Jessie Wallace
20-04-2007, 23:15
explain exactly what your trying to do?
Is it that you want the inside of your text so that you can see the picture behind it?

samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 23:15
ive merged down and this is what i get (fingers crossed it works)
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/pinkwilleitendintearsmergeddown.jpg

edit - nope it didnt

Xx-Vicky-xX
20-04-2007, 23:29
Im going to try a theory i have, i doubt it will work but worth testing

edit: is this what you meant?

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8731/testhe2.jpg

samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 23:44
explain exactly what your trying to do?
Is it that you want the inside of your text so that you can see the picture behind it?

sorry i was gonna reply sooner but me dad turfed me of the computer lol,
id like it to turn out how my actual signature is where you cant see a white background behind the text, but if you look at my banner in the 1 st post of ophelia that has white behind the text

Jessie Wallace
20-04-2007, 23:48
Ok is it this :-

This is what you want

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/JessieWallace33/Pictures%20for%20Soap%20boards/Right.jpg

But this is what you get

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/JessieWallace33/Pictures%20for%20Soap%20boards/Wrong-1.jpg

samantha nixon
20-04-2007, 23:48
Im going to try a theory i have, i doubt it will work but worth testing

edit: is this what you meant?

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8731/testhe2.jpg

yeah it is vicky, how do you do it? lol

and no thats not what i want dawn as yo can still see the white, sorry lol im a pain

Xx-Vicky-xX
20-04-2007, 23:52
Im going to try a theory i have, i doubt it will work but worth testing

edit: is this what you meant?

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8731/testhe2.jpg

yeah it is vicky, how do you do it? lol

and no thats not what i want dawn as yo can still see the white, sorry lol im a pain

well i dont know how to explain it cos i dont use paint shop pro but if you wanted to send me the pics you want i could do it for you

Jessie Wallace
20-04-2007, 23:52
Ok, hope you get it sorted then hun, coz i still don't get it, i can't see a difference in the top two pictures really! lol

samantha nixon
21-04-2007, 00:09
Vicky that isnt what i want lol, it just looked like it cos it was on a white background,
and im trying to cap it to show you the difference lol but stupid photobucket is taking yonks to load and my prnt screen button wont work
thanks for your help anyway guys

Jessie Wallace
21-04-2007, 00:13
Sorry we couldn't be of more help, i really thought i'd got it with that last one, but never mind.

Abi
21-04-2007, 00:18
I dont have PSP, but i think its to do with the format you save it in.

I'm guessing you're saving it as a GIF. When you export it, there should be an option to save it as "Index Transparency", whereas at the minute, it would say something like "No Transparency". No transparency means the stuff you've set as being transparent, will automatically go white. Select Index Transparency, and set the colour to transparent, and it should work.

Never know, might work. If you've got the background on your actual banner as Transparent, then its got to be the way you are saving it that is the problem.

samantha nixon
21-04-2007, 00:26
i'm saving them as a JPG file and ive been making them on photoshop, im only trying the ones dawn and lea have said on psp

and dawn here is a screencap of what i mean (hope it works)
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/screencap.jpg

edit - the screencap has gone wrong aswell, i'm guessing your right abi and it must be how im saving it

edit 2 - just looked at the one leanne made me that works and that is a gif so maybe i need to save it as them instead

Abi
21-04-2007, 00:32
JPG files dont support transparency. Save it as a GIF, TIFF or PNG and it should work.

samantha nixon
21-04-2007, 00:42
Thank you so much Abi, there was me thinknig it was gonna be something im doing wrong and i was saving it in the wrong file type lol
leanne spent ages earlier trying to see how she did it and all it was she saved it a different way
so lets test it lol and see if it has gone right
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/random.gif

yay!! it worked!! thanks so much abi

Abi
21-04-2007, 00:46
Thats okkk, no problem :)........

samantha nixon
30-08-2008, 03:08
Hiya, sorry to post in the thread about this again, except im having the same problem as I was before, except it is even happening when I save it as a gif, which is what solved the problem before, you cant notice on this site as it is white anyway, but with my current banner, and all my other recent ones in that style have been coming out not transparent, and i only noticed when i went to use one on another site (they have a grey background) and the white showed up

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/sammie91/Image27.gif

does anyone know if this could be if im paint shop pro (cant remeber what my lot from before were made on)