Transparency Tutorials

[Sincerely]

Yay! Help with Transparency! :P Oh, and don't you just lurve my spiffy Table of Contents? :D Lol, I kid. It's not that they link somewhere, it's just that this is the order I put the tutorials in. So it's still useful I guess. Remember that in some programs, checkered areas are good!

Table of Contents

Paint Shop Pro 7
Paint Shop Pro 8
Paint Shop Pro 9

Giffy 2.0 (Free Program:  DOWNLOAD )

[/list]Of coarse there are different ways of doing transparency. So you may feel free to add a tutorial of the program you use in another post. =O Oh, and try to be as specific as you can! Do it for the newbies to the world of graphics. Or maybe just for me! XD

Paint Shop Pro 7____________________

Say I was using this picture:

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I would go to File -> Save As. Something like this will show up:

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**Make sure you save it as a gif!
Click Options. Now, you should see something like this:

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Run the Optimizer.

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Select "Areas that match this color," and set the color to white or whatever you want to be transparent.
Click OK, and continue saving your image.

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Paint Shop Pro 7____________________

Open the image you want transparent.

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Color in the part you want transparent with some color not in the pic.

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Then go to File->Export->GIF optimizer (or whatever file type you want)

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In the window, be sure the color box is set to the color you used.  You can see the transparency effect in the right picture window.  Once everything is cool, click ok, and save it as a gif!

Paint Shop Pro 9____________________

First here is the picture i am going to make transparent:

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What you want to do:
Make the part you want trasparent a color that is not in the picture all ready: example:

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Make the two colors (first and second colors) the same as the one you used in the first step.....

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Go up to the top bar where it says IMAGE, click. Then go down to where it says PALETTE, click. Then click where it says SET PALETTE TRANSPARENCY.

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Now with the screen that comes up you click on the circle beside where it says: SET THE TRANSPARENCY VALUE TO THE CURRENT BACKGROUND COLOR.

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You can always click where it says proof and make sure the pitcure comes out transparent. After that is done is the easy part saving.
Make sure to save your pictue under a .gif file.

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Then your picture should be trasnparent:

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Giffy 2.0____________________

For those of you who don't have this program, I uploaded it from my computer to the internet for you to download. It's actually a EXTREAMLY easy program for simpletons like me who don't want to go through the troble of clicking a lot. LOL! XD It can make your MSpaint Bitmap Images into quick loading Gifs & it can also make Gifs into Bitmaps so you can edit them with MSpaint. Alas, I use this only for my blinkies I make. :/ This program isn't good for website layouts or something pretty complicated. I've been here for an hour and wow. @_@ I'm tired. So I'm going to put this one basic thing into one basic tutorial.

This is what Giffy looks like:

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Here's how:
1-Load your Bitmap picture (this could be your blinkie or your pixel drawing)
2-Choose if you want a color to be transparent
3-Save as a GIF!

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And...I think that about sums it up. Thanks for reading! And Let me just quote something the the top of my post:

Of coarse there are different ways of doing transparency. So you may feel free to add a tutorial of the program you use in another post. =O Oh, and try to be as specific as you can! Do it for the newbies to the world of graphics. Or maybe just for me! XD

[Blackstone]

That's a really good tutorial! I could have used this back when I first started making graphics, lol. I was having a terrible time figuring out how to do transparency. In the end, I got it, xD That was five years ago, but.... O.o

And it's nice to have a PSP tutorial! Not a lot of them running around, lol.

[fedekiller]

hehe very nice xD