I made a few screen-shots (136, actually) for my shrine that I started working on recently and now I need to do the following things to them :
1)Convert them to gifs.
2)Make parts of each picture transparent.
And I tried the following programs :
1)MS PAINT - Conversion to GIF makes the picture lose colors ;_;
2)PHOTO SHOP 5 - Doesn’t have GIF format, takes way too much time to save (Many menus)
Can anyone suggest me a good program? Also please tell me how to make transparencies on that program unless it’s obvious. THANKS!
Adobe Photoshop Elements Does about 80% of what Adobe Photoshop # does. It cheaper and it is involved with most of my Pickys. Most Photoshop oftern used tasks are availible in Elements 2. Including the very Useful Save to Web funtion.
Amazon.COM has Brand new Elemtents 3 for $84.99 US, and Brand new Adobe Photoshop CS for $589.99 US.
Big Nutter
Has Both Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 and 2.
To make transparency in Irfanview (find a link above), dedicate one, very bright and easy to recognize color as the background or area you want to make transparent. Take this color, and fill <i>completely</i> the area you want to be transparent. Save it as a gif.
Open this file in Irfanview.
Click Image > Palette > Edit Palette
This will display all color values in the image. The color value with the most of that color in the image is in the uppermost left block. That color is usually the color you selected as your color to make transparent. If the color you selected to make transparent is not the majority color in the image, select that color from the list.
Once you have selected the color you want to make transparent, look to the bottom of the “Palette entries” dialog (the dialog you are in). At the bottom, it should say “Index: [the number of the color you selected]” Remember this number.
Click File > Save As > Compuserve GIF*
Check “Show Options Dialog”
In the JPEG/GIF options dialog-
Highest Quality
Keep original EXIF data
Keep original IPTC data
Keep original JPG comment
Save transparent color (forces gif, i think, but we already selected this)
Set Transparency value to palette entry
Insert the “Index Number” we found before into here, then click “save”
And its transparent
*>_> just as an aside, anyone know why it is called a compuserve GIF? Was it pioneered on the Compurserv internet service?
