Paint + .pngs = How do you make part of it transparent?

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Jul 23 2005, 7:20 pm
Y'know...just wondering. :p
Jul 23 2005, 7:27 pm
In Paint? AFAIK, you don't. Get a better image editor. =P
Jul 23 2005, 7:28 pm
In response to Crispy
_>
Then how do you do it in GIMP? Sorry to be annoying.
Also, what does AFAIK mean? (As far as I know?)
Jul 23 2005, 7:29 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
Jul 23 2005, 8:00 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
No idea, I don't use Gimp. =) Try searching. http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html may be useful.
Jul 23 2005, 8:01 pm
In response to Crispy
Okiday, thanks. :p
Jul 23 2005, 8:17 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
GimpSHOP, GimpSHOP!

~>Jiskuha
Jul 24 2005, 6:23 am
In response to Ol' Yeller
Ol' Yeller wrote:
Then how do you do it in GIMP?

In the GIMP, when you create an image, you give it a transparent background. Any parts of the transparent background that aren't coloured over stay transparent. :)
Jul 24 2005, 7:20 am
In response to Ol' Yeller
Anyone have a direct link to download GIMP? Every time I try it says can't find server, or connection failed out.
Jul 24 2005, 8:24 am
In response to Digital Samurai
Jul 24 2005, 1:32 pm
To elaborate on the 'it doesn't' replies. Windows uses the same PNG library for all of its programs, try viewing a PNG with transparency in IE, the transparent parts turn crappy 'Windows grey', pretty sad. It's mostly because the library in use for them doesn't support it, I believe there are ways to update it to show (and save) it properly, but I've never looked further into it.
Jul 24 2005, 2:04 pm
In response to Nadrew
Nadrew wrote:
To elaborate on the 'it doesn't' replies. Windows uses the same PNG library for all of its programs, try viewing a PNG with transparency in IE, the transparent parts turn crappy 'Windows grey', pretty sad. It's mostly because the library in use for them doesn't support it, I believe there are ways to update it to show (and save) it properly, but I've never looked further into it.

I believe that Microsoft uses a version of the open source libpng library that they've modified for their products. IE, for example, can do PNG transparency perfectly. Unfortunately it requires some ugly hacking of HTML and an IE-specific CSS attribute to be set. I don't know why they don't just have it work in the first place.
Jul 24 2005, 9:27 pm
In response to Jon88
Yeah, there's a weird hack that you can do - something about wrapping the image with a div tag and setting some obscure CSS. It's really stupid that it doesn't just work, and even more stupid that they don't update the darn thing. -_-
Jul 25 2005, 8:44 pm
In response to Crispy
It'll probably be touted as the next big thing in IE7 :)
Jul 26 2005, 9:52 pm
In response to Maz
You think it'll actually be in IE7? So optimistic... =P