Hey
wonder if anyone can help me create a transparent layer. I have an icon button I want to use but can because it has a wht background?
Thx
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Hi there Carla, would I be right in assuming that you downloaded this button or did you create yourself? PNG file format supports transparency. Is it an image you have? I need more information really if you do not mind.
thanks
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HI Chris
how are you>?? Yes I have designed a button in PS so it has at transparent layer background and I know one it is flattened in jpg, there is a colored or wht background which ruins the design of my page. So I imported file as psd but same problem
I will try png and get back to you
thx so much
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THX Chris
always something to learn with this wonderful bloody Freeway so I switched over to png and yes the layer is transparent. There is a outline of white around the button but that is ok
Thanks again so much
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Hi Carla, glad to help. I am a photoshop CS3 regular - so if you need any help in this area I would be happy to help.
Kind Regards
Chris
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Hi Chris
I have CS5 and they have tweaked many things , but its ok.
so I do have a question. why is there a white line around the item once it is in png.
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Hi Carla unless I saw it I could not tell you, but my immediate intuitive guess would be a 1 or 0.5 pixel Border?
Other than this I would have to view it in PS, which I know is not much help to you right now. But could you not edit it out in PS? Go To: Select - colour range and in the drop down menu click on Sampled colours so that you can then choose the white border with the Pipette? But i am sure you know all this. It’s all I can come up with at 0100 in the morning.
I won’t be able to read your replies till tomorrow ok. I’m off now.
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Thx! I will try it
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More likely you have chosen to antialias your image to a white background.
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Hi all The png works fine hey there Dave how are you??
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Curious what does the Anti alias do. I never knew about that. I have the image on auto - anti alias, never paid much attention to this mystery
Ha!
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Fine thanks Carla - but going to bed v shortly.
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If you choose to antialias against a background colour (probably defaults to white) then you get a sort of Halo around your image to help it blend into the background.
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oh thx never know that so I should turn anti alias off
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good morning Carla, no actually not, ‘On’ blends two opposing colours so that they do not have as much ‘Contrast’. It ‘Smoothes’ the transition between two opposing colours so as to make them appear more naturally blending into each other at the edges.
If you placed a solid black square and a solid white square next to each other the ‘Border’ would be very High Contrast. So AntiAlias ‘On when Joining’ would transform that border into varying levels of grey in order to give the appearance of a ‘naturally seamless’ black gradually to white object instead of that harsh black then white object joined artificially together.
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Just a quick demonstration of different Antalias settings within FW - set in the item inspector under Item Output Settings
http://www.deltadesign.co/odds/antialias.html
An instance where you might wish to change from the Auto setting to choosing a bg colour to AA against might be an instance where you have Graphic Text on top of continuous tone picture or a gradient fill box.
FW will choose what it considers to be the best option but you may need to help FW choose a better match to avoid the halo/pixelated border effect.
So if you had a graduated image from green to blue and it didnt look quite right you might select a colour that was somewhere between the 2 for a better effect.
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well thank you teachers! I will give it awhirl!
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