GIMP HELP

[halutzparilla]

i'm having problem converting the background to transparent... i have gimp2.2.13...

i can't figure it out the transparency and every time i export to jpeg the background turns white...

could shed some light to a gimp ****...

[kelly]

What color is the background?

If it's white, there's a menu option for "color to alpha". So you could do white to alpha. This might make other parts of the pic transparent :-/

I suggest cutting out the parts you want and "pasting them as new."

Also, afaik, jpegs dont support transparency. Save to png instead.

[screwballl]

from what I understand jpgs can't handle the transparent backgrounds, best to use png for that

[gvblake22]

Exactly, JPG cannot do transparency. PNG will do transparency with the best quality (although file size might be kinda large). If the file size of the PNG is too large and your image has relatively simple colors, then you could try a GIF.

[halutzparilla]

cool now i get it its the conversion of jpeg that cant handle it thanks i'm saving it in png...

[MantaBase]

As said, only PNG and GIF 89 support transparency. There are some other archaic ones that do, but I suspect GIMP doesn't have those formats.

[MantaBase]

Originally Posted by halutzparilla

cool now i get it its the conversion of jpeg that cant handle it thanks i'm saving it in png...

Doh! you already got that! Sorry :) And it was 6 days ago! lol - I gotta look at the dates more often

Manta

[polobunny]

The only small problem with PNG's is that Internet Explorer 6 doesn't support alpha blending so you don't see it right.
Since Internet Explorer 7 is being pushed on Windows XP users it's not so much of a problem anymore, but if you want the ultimate compatibility (WYSIWYG) no matter what browser someone is using, GIF is still the way to go.
Also PNG-8 is smaller in filesize than GIF Blake. You're probably thinking of PNG-24.