Transparent jpg's

[Norman Marshall]

Can someone tell me how to make a transparent jpg? need it for me new skin and some of the backdrops need to be transparent.

[draginit]

I believe you will have to create a PNG format for any transparencies...

[Barcrest]

Is this for a button? If so you are better off using a transparent GIF or a BMP file.

[Norman Marshall]

Is this for a button? If so you are better off using a transparent GIF or a BMP file.

No mate these are for the backdrops for each page, ive worked out that the opacity button in photoshop is the little gadget that makes the page semi transparrent but when ive saved the page as a jpg it becomes a solid colour. If i make a backdrop and save it as a gif or bmp file, will i be able to swap the jpg for a bmp in the skintool?

[Barcrest]

Is this for a button? If so you are better off using a transparent GIF or a BMP file.

No mate these are for the backdrops for each page, ive worked out that the opacity button in photoshop is the little gadget that makes the page semi transparrent but when ive saved the page as a jpg it becomes a solid colour. If i make a backdrop and save it as a gif or bmp file, will i be able to swap the jpg for a bmp in the skintool?

The backdrops cannot be semi transparent they can only be solid. So to create a transparent effect you need to build that into the page image. It can be done but like i said you have to make it all as one image.

If you are trying to make it appear that a page is over another one with transparency you would have to put a screen shot behind the transparent image in photoshop and save it out. Obviously it wouldn't really be transparent so the information displayed behind may not be correct. There are ways around this by making the image/page as small as necessary so there is little information being shown through the page.

EDIT: I have looked at doing this in code for you just and it is not easy at all.

[Norman Marshall]

Oh well, thanks for looking barry, Its back to the thinking board for me

[Barcrest]

Oh well, thanks for looking barry, Its back to the thinking board for me

You can do what you want but it's just a little more work... What screen were you thinking of doing it on?

[Norman Marshall]

Oh well, thanks for looking barry, Its back to the thinking board for me

You can do what you want but it's just a little more work... What screen were you thinking of doing it on?

All but the album view

[d78]

Transparency does not exist in JPG format. You will need PNG or GIF.