Re: [artworks] Transparent background
- From: Tim Hill <smartgroups@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:24:08 +0100
In article <4fc175a766kell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kell
<kell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19 Jul, Tim Hill <smartgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Any ideas?
> > You could instead save a sprite of the blue text against a grey
> > rectangle and use Intergif to then select the grey as the background
> > colour and create a transparent GIF. I found this solution when
> > getting as frustrated as you. ;-)
> Yes, but how do you find out which is the right colour to be the
> backgound? If you load it as a sprite then you can see which colour
> number is the background, but I don't know how to do the same with a
> GIF: therefore it's a bit hit and miss.
Intergif !Help says:
(Hint: to find out what pixel-value a sprite pixel has,
load the sprite into Paint, ensure its palette window is
showing, click Menu over the pixel you want, and choose
"Paint->Select colour".)
And it's true!
--
Tim Hill,
www.timil.com
... "To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou
can'st not then be false to any man" Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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