Transparent Images

[LeetKrew]

I read the tutorial on how to make transparent bodies and everything, but how do I make normal PNGs transparent, and also visible in the GraalEditor..

I had a 24 bit image, which looked transparent online, but I couldn't see it in the GraalEditor, so I made it a lower bit and it worked in GraalEditor, but it wasn't transparent.

How do I define the transparent background color in PaintShopPro so that it shows in GraalEditor as well as it is transparent.

[Stephen]

Probably the coding it's using to generate the PNGs. I know that in the standard Adobe Photoshop 24bit PNGs it won't generate them right. I had to install a new plugin to save PNGs for Graal.

You may have to do some research. Another option you may want to consider is an 8bit PNG depending on how you're using the image (do you really need Alpha transparencies?).

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by LeetKrew

I had a 24 bit image, which looked transparent online, but I couldn't see it in the GraalEditor, so I made it a lower bit and it worked in GraalEditor, but it wasn't transparent.

How do I define the transparent background color in PaintShopPro so that it shows in GraalEditor as well as it is transparent.

When I started getting into editing a lot, I quickly learned that you need to set bit levels then set transparencies. Not the other way around, because you'll wind up re-encoding it into 24-bit, usually.

Come to think of it, I should really write up some new tutorials to replace the outdated ones we have stickied sometime. I know some stuff that's pretty useful.

[nikomi946]

For PaintShopPro decrease color depth to 256 colors (8 bit) then set the transparency for your background color. This may sound obvious but its a mistake I see time and again but make sure you aren't using that same color elsewhere in your image that you don't want transparent.
-Bell

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by nikomi946

For PaintShopPro decrease color depth to 256 colors (8 bit) then set the transparency for your background color. This may sound obvious but its a mistake I see time and again but make sure you aren't using that same color elsewhere in your image that you don't want transparent.
-Bell

I believe he's trying to make a PNG with alpha transparencies - a 24bit PNG.