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| Thread ID: 69804 | 2006-06-13 00:23:00 | How do I create a transparent image from text? | Greven (91) | Press F1 |
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| 462687 | 2006-06-13 00:23:00 | I want to reproduce the toshiba logo (which is just red text using the arial font) & give it a transparent background so I can put it on the website I am making & be sure it will look the same to everyone. Does anyone know how to do that using gimp, or another free tool? I don't have photoshop. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 462688 | 2006-06-13 01:46:00 | Gimp File New. There will be some option about background colour. Select the Transparent option. Use the text tool to type 'Toshiba' on it. |
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| 462689 | 2006-06-13 07:55:00 | Or you can use the 'colour to alpha' filter - this will (within the selected area) tranform the chosen colour to transparent - perfect for eliminating annoying backgrounds. However, be sure that you are complying with trademark laws, as I believe the toshiba logo is trademarked. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 462690 | 2006-06-13 11:02:00 | Or you can use the 'colour to alpha' filter - this will (within the selected area) tranform the chosen colour to transparent - perfect for eliminating annoying backgrounds. However, be sure that you are complying with trademark laws, as I believe the toshiba logo is trademarked. I tried that first with a logo I downloaded. It didn't work out well. I've got it done now. wasn't as hard as I thought once I figured out the gimp interface. Had to grab the font off my windows box though. After all that, I discovered that IE doesn't seem to support transparency :(. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 462691 | 2006-06-13 21:16:00 | Yes, IE does support transparency. What format are you saving it in? If you are saving it as png, then IE does have a problem with transparency... sort of. You see, IE is fine with gifs, which are 8-bit, and contain only 1 alpha transparency (100% transparent). PNG (default 32-bit) contains multiple alpha transparencies, and that is when IE(below 7) screws up. If you want to get a png working in IE, you must first 'index' it (Gimp terms), or save it as an 8-bit png (photoshop terms). In Gimp, it is something like 'Image > Mode > Indexed' I believe. Choose below 256 colours, and remove dithering. |
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