Transparent images

by **stupidone** on Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:13 pm

This is my first post here,

I have several .gif images that I want to make transparent, (please note, I do not want the area surrounding an image to be transparent, I want the image to be transparent, semi-opaque)
I want to be able to see through the images making the background visible, and I mean the image should be semi-transparent/opaque.

This is for a web-page and I have a nice background and I want it to show through the <body> part of the page (like as if looking through a milky window)

Am I making any sense...?
Anyone know what I am ranting about? and know how to do this?

by **tombothetominator** on Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:54 pm

how about just lowering the opacity on the image layers before slicing it out for a webpage??

by **stupidone** on Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:08 pm

You better tell me more...please
I have this finished .gif image, not of my making
So I open this image in photoshop, then what??

I am not a master at this, otherwise I would not ask.

by **Alk** on Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:13 pm

show please?

by **CopperDesk** on Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:26 pm

stupidone wrote:I have this finished .gif image, not of my making
So I open this image in photoshop, then what??

If the gif is animated... forget it.

If it is still.. then open you background texture first in photoshop... paste your gif over it... lower the opacity of gif as much you want.. save the file.. use it on your page.

One slight problem with this also.. tiling of webpage will not match.

here is good tutorial on layers http://photoshop-tutions.blogspot.com/2 ... ayers.html

by **stupidone** on Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:38 pm

The image/images is/are not animated...

so it is not possible to make an image transparent without involving the background image?

the problem is that on the web page, the center of the page is made up of several images, just like on this page here.

exampel,
If the forum page was the one that I wanted to change, the grey background would be slightly visible through all the pictures.

by **CopperDesk** on Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:22 am

stupidone wrote:..so it is not possible to make an image transparent without involving the background image?....

With the picture formats available for web... answer is no. to make easy to understand...You have to supply a 100% opaque image to your page. That means if you have bring down the opacity to 80% the rest 20% you have to suggest to photoshop before saving for web. otherwise it will make it 100% in the final saved version.

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