How-to Set Transparencies and Color Depth

[xXziroXx]

ya'll need to stop using **** like irfanview, paint.net, giffy and the likes and grow some balls and pirate a proper program

ya i went there

[xAndrewx]

i use saveforweb in Photoshop

[Crow]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

i use saveforweb in Photoshop

Ugh. Please don't :/

[cbk1994]

Personally I hex dump the image into emacs and regex the transparent color using the mandb index and kernel cache with a quick series of 15 meta keys and 7 interrupts. I don't know why you guys choose to do it the hard way.

Originally Posted by Crow

Ugh. Please don't :/

As someone who doesn't use Photoshop for non-photos (and hence has rarely used it), why not?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

As someone who doesn't use Photoshop for non-photos (and hence has rarely used it), why not?

Well for one it saves as gif(it's preferred to use png if you're not animating), but I think it may also adapt to web palette.

It'd be really cool to see a program(or website) made that's quick and easy image saving made specifically for Graal. Copy/Paste and BOOM, save prompt. Automatic transparency option(based on 0,0 pixel), color correction for black and white(replaces #00 and #FF with Graal-compatible nears) and automatic body detection(detects bodies based on width/height and then properly adjusts the palette based on the colors from body.png).

[Crow]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

but I think it may also adapt to web palette.

This, mostly.

Edit: Although, it looks like you can turn that off now. I know you couldn't in previous versions. But it's still GIF. PNG is preferred. Not too bad anymore, but still not the best way to do it. Also, saving with IrfanView, you can also use pngout, which it comes with. Saving with pngout will (sometime drastically) reduce the size of the resulting file, which is great for both website usage and Graal.

[xAndrewx]

which version do you use? lol

[Crow]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

which version do you use? lol

CS5. Haven't used the feature in a while, though. I was using PS7 for a long time, and if I remember correctly, it was only sporting GIF and web safe colors with the "save for web" option.

[xAndrewx]

ah I use photoshop 7 and thats on there... you must have used 6!!

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

which version do you use? lol

Rolf... Yes. I use save for web everyday. The dialog doesn't just offer several image formats (including 24bit PNG) it also has control over optimization.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

ah I use photoshop 7 and thats on there... you must have used 6!!

Might have been 6, I can't remember.

[xAndrewx]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Rolf... Yes. I use save for web everyday. The dialog doesn't just offer several image formats (including 24bit PNG) it also has control over optimization.

I think you may have told me how to use it to be honest