Help with text transparency

[samantha nixon]

hiya
I need help, i'm trying to get the text transparent on my banners.
Leanne managed to do one:


but mine keep turning out like this, and leane cant remeber what she did


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

thanks for any help, I hope this makes sense

[CrazyLea]

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]

Ive tried that, and i have psp and photoshop so whatever, I just want it to work lol

[Jessie Wallace]

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]

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]

Hiya
ive tried both ways and it didnt work, am i doing something wrong?

[CrazyLea]

. 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]

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]

ive merged down and this is what i get (fingers crossed it works)


edit - nope it didnt

[Xx-Vicky-xX]

Im going to try a theory i have, i doubt it will work but worth testing

edit: is this what you meant?