by Toppyrocks » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:24 pm
Cheesie, I can help! What program are you using? I use Gimp and Photoshop, so I know that those two work for transparent backgrounds. I don't think paint does though.
So pretty much you have to delete the white background that a new file starts with, so that there is nothing behind the image when you save it. Save first as a file extension that can handle layers, so that if you need to you can go back and edit it, but things like tinypic won't upload them. I use .xcf or the standard photoshop extenstion that photoshop saves with. Then save it again as .png (I'm pretty sure that's it. If not, it's .gif, but I think it's .png.) I can check in an hour or so when I switch to the computer with my artsy stuff. This file type can handle transparency, but will have to merge all the layers (hence why you saved it the first time). Then upload it however you usually do (I use tinypic) and it should be transparent.
Shadey- Secretariat was a male. I watched that movie, and I knew about him before. The movie was so accurate, and it was soo cool to see some of the real film footage! I love random facts. If you get enough of them stored in your head, you end up having a random interesting fact for lots of conversations. (And your friends think your a bit weird too, but what the heck, they're not ones to talk)
So say you looked up the ... welsh pony, it would give you the most famous welsh pony?
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