image in white rectangle

[David Kwinter]

You want to make the white part of your image transparent. There's a tool to 
do this, but it only makes 1 specific color transparent. Superior would be a 
tool that anti-aliased the edges using alphadata.

The tool is in Development Menu/Revolution Online/User 
Spaces/Category/Programming/Makes transp...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew" <alw918 at earthlink.net>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: image in white rectangle


> oh, perhaps I didn't explain myself well.
> Say I'm importing an image of a person standing in full figure against a 
> white background.  When this image is in front of another larger image, 
> you can see the white background behind the person.  I just want to make 
> the white background behind the person invisible so it just looks like the 
> person is standing in front of the other picture.
>
> Thanks!
> On Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 06:39  PM, 
> use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>> On Dec 14, 2004, at 5:30 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> When importing an image, it always appears inside a white rectangle.
>>> Is there any way to set the white to "transparent"?
>>
>> I don't see that in a quick test I did.  Maybe the border got turned
>> on, somehow.
>>
>> Or do you mean the image itself has a white rectangle?
>>
>> If the white is only at the edge...  In that case you can write a small
>> script to get the imageData, and compute an alphaData and set that.
>>
>> Or you might be running across bug 560 or bug 1090, where transparency
>> is lost.  The first is a problem in pasting an image.  The second is a
>> problem of transparency being lost when the card changes.
>
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