Posted: 2/10/2007 5:27 PM
(Edited: 4/24/2007 11:39 PM)
Post subject: How to Make Transparent GIFs in Windows GIMPshop?
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Deep_Loner
Joined: 12/26/2006
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You can probably guess what my question is...
Posted: 2/10/2007 7:38 PM
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xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
I'm not sure what Gimpshop is, unless you are asking how to do it in any software in general. In general there is a color assigned to transparency. There should be a menu option somewhere that allows you to pick the transparent color. Then, if you want a transparent pixel, simply color it with that color. It's also very easy in Paint.NET, simply draw whatever the heck you want with transparency wherever you want it and save it as a GIF. That may work in other software, too.
Posted: 2/10/2007 8:18 PM
(Edited: 4/24/2007 11:41 PM)
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Deep_Loner
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The GIMP is a popular open-source image editing program that's said to be almost as powerful as many commercial products available. GIMPshop is a modification of The GIMP that makes the program more Windows-friendly and changes the interface to resemble Adobe Photoshop. (Supposedly. I've never used Photoshop.) I suspect that the Transparency menu has something to do with it, but I can't figure it out...
Posted: 2/10/2007 8:19 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
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If this were GIMP, I would add an alpha channel to the bottom-most layer, and then use the "Clear" command using the selection tool to rip out chunks of the image as transparency. Save.
Posted: 2/10/2007 8:36 PM
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Deep_Loner
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DeHackEd wrote:
If this were GIMP, I would add an alpha channel to the bottom-most layer, and then use the "Clear" command using the selection tool to rip out chunks of the image as transparency. Save.
It is GIMP, just with a modified user interface. You can read the Wikipedia article. What you told me was all I needed to know! Thanks a lot!