Transparent Images

[J.J.Bayle]

le 22/04/02 14:01, Shari à gypsyware at earthlink.net a écrit :

>>> I have some transparent png's on several cards, and sometimes they show up
>>> transparent and other times they don't (ie. they have a big ugly white
>>> rectangular background). I can even go back and forth between a couple of
>>> cards, and images that show up fine one time will not show up ok the next
>>> and vice-versa. I have not been able to find a repeatable pattern to it, but
>>> it is a fairly common occurance.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>> 
>>> Glen Yates
> 
> I've had problems with that too.  If I save an image as a JPEG, even
> if I remove the white around the image and save just the image, the
> white part shows up in my stacks, making the image square or
> rectangular, and nothing I've tried gets rid of the white.  I've
> experimented with the inks and transparencies and so forth, with no
> luck.  I do not know if this is a JPEG thing or a Metacard thing.
> 
> It only works if I save it as a GIF image.  Unfortunately, that's a
> LOT of extra work for me, as GIFs want to degrade the image and I
> have to ditz and ditz to get it to look the same.  There's no easy
> save option for GIFS in my software that doesn't degrade the image.
> I'm in the middle of doing this right now, with a very large batch of
> images.  My PhotoDeluxe program is not Applescriptable, so they each
> have to be done the hard way, using the Advanced Save option.
> 
> My goal was that I wanted the images to be oval.

I often need the same thing than you, in the image properties I select
"Extras", "Colors" and then I choose "Transparent". It works pretty good.
I'm on MacOS 9.1 and MC 2.4
J.J.Bayle
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