asked on

Transparent w/ Marble Background

I'm using a marble (white/gray)background for my web page and have an image with a lot of blank space. Is it possible to use the marble web page background as the background for the image using the transparency effect? If so how would you do it with LView Pro? If it can't be done any advice you can give would be great. Thanks

DAve

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

jrcook

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

Heather032697

These instructions work for LView Pro 1B2. There is a more recent version than this, but the process is almost the same. The thing with LView Pro is that there isn't really a precise command that sets the transparent colour. So, you need to follow a slightly convoluted process.

1. On the "Retouch" menu, choose "Color Depth". Click "Palette Image" on the top line, and choose "OK". (Do this even if Palette Image is already selected.)
2. On the "Options" menu, choose "Background Color". Click the "Dropper" button. The Background color screen will disappear, and you will be back at your image, with a cursor that looks like an eyedropper. Click once on the image, and then draw a small box that surrounds ONLY the colour that you would like to have transparent. It is not necessary to select every section of the colour, but the box that you draw must have inside it only the colour that is to be transparent.
3. On the "File" menu, choose "Save as". In the bottom left pull-down, choose "GIF 89a (*.gif)". Enter a name for your graphics file, and choose "OK".
4. Any areas in your file that were originally in the colour that you chose in step 5 will now be transparent. So, they will show the background colour of your web page.