The Dreaded White Space!

[Fualkner Asiniti]

How do You make the white space around the avatar transparent?

[Ego Slayer]

I'll need to know what program you are using before I can help.

[Fualkner Asiniti]

what about paint? I also have access to GIMP, but I can't save in gimp...

[Ego Slayer]

I'm not sure on the files types Paint is willing to save to but if GIMP can open the file you can make it transparent through that.

Here (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=arts;action=display;num=1156891679;s tart=90) is the guide for using GIMP for transparency,

[TinSoldier]

I use Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/), erase the white part, and save as GIF.

[Gerrtt]

I have problems doing this as well...I'm using Sodi Podi...any tips?

[Bryn]

If you're not worried about IE not showing transparency, just set the background colour to transparent when you export as .png.

Otherwise, set it to white (for the anti-aliasing) and save it as a .gif, making the white transparent. This is easy in irfanview, although this can cause artifacts due to dithering, or in the Gimp.

Finally, I would seriously reccomend not using microsoft paint, due to the lack of tools (especially vector-related), lack of anti-aliasing, and the use of only .bmp (which gives horrendous file sizes) to save.

[Gerrtt]

Maybe I should be more specific:

Whenever I try to remove the white background using irfanview it just turns the background black and leaves white bits all around the edges of the avatar. I'll try and make an example real fast so you can see what I'm talking about.

Here we go

http://photos-918.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31454918_4834.jpg

Any tips on what to do about that?

[InaVegt]

Get the horrible free program called GIMP, it's devilspawn but usefull for this purpose, egoslayer posted a linky on how to do that with the gimp.

[TinSoldier]

For Windows users, and for 90% of tasks, I think that Paint.NET is easier to use than Gimp.


I use Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/), erase the white part, and save as GIF.

[NEO|Phyte]

Maybe I should be more specific:

Whenever I try to remove the white background using irfanview it just turns the background black and leaves white bits all around the edges of the avatar. I'll try and make an example real fast so you can see what I'm talking about.

Here we go

http://photos-918.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31454918_4834.jpg

Any tips on what to do about that?
Don't use JPG, it doesn't support transparency. Save it as a GIF.

[Gerrtt]

OK, both of these are GIFs and I followed the procedures to the letter...now what?

http://photos-277.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31455277_5470.jpg

http://photos-278.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31455278_5692.jpg

[NEO|Phyte]

OK, both of these are GIFs and I followed the procedures to the letter...now what?

http://photos-277.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31455277_5470.jpg

http://photos-278.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v51/172/45/33000452/n33000452_31455278_5692.jpg

They aren't GIF :-/

I don't have Irfanview, so I have no clue whats going on, but those images are still jpg.

[Gerrtt]

D'oh....solved the mystery

Aparently where I was hosting them turns everything into a jpeg when you upload it.

Lame facebook garbage....just another reason to drop my account there. Thanks for the suggestions though.