Making GFX Transperant

[ZeekTheMan2]

What are the colors to make a GFX transperant or how do u make it like that

[coreys]

theres no real color that appear transparent by default. Well, yes black, for gifs, but I think that stopped with graal 4. When you've made a gfx, and you want it transparent, the easiest way to do it is first make the background that is to be transparent a solid color (i ussually use darkgreen, some use lightpurple), open up a program like Giffy and make it transparent and .gif

[Curt1zzle]

Originally Posted by ZeekTheMan2

What are the colors to make a GFX transperant or how do u make it like that

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[Bl0nkt]

Originally Posted by Era Forums

Since I figure a lot of people don't have high-end programs like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro, I'll make a small tutorial on transparenting images with MS Paint and giffy.

First, download giffy and put all the given files into one folder. I suggest making a Giffy folder and putting it in your My Documents area.

Step 1 Make your head/body/shield/weapon/whatever, and save it in the 24-bit Bitmap format (.bmp/.dib). Make sure the background color is different from every other color in your image.

Here's the image I made.

Notice the background color (the color around the initial image) is different from every color in the image. This is essential!

Step 2 Open the image with giffy. Follow these directions:

1) Run GiFFY.exe in the folder you saved giffy to
2) Click Load BMP when the program opens, and select your image (you should now see your image in giffy)
3) Check the Transparent box under GIF options so it's on
4) Click your background color. You should see the background color in a small box under the Transparent checkbox
5) Click Save GIF and save your image somewhere

Step 3 Your image is now ready to be uploaded! If you wish to post it on the forums, you can upload it to imageshack.

Finished product:

http://www.eraforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=913