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Jan 20th, 2008 at 8:07pm

RichieB16   Offline
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OK, I know there are people here who are a lot better than me at this...so I figured I would just ask.  I am trying to edit this image, and I can do it in PSP but when I go to save it it seems to not save.  All I want to do is get rid of the white around the image (and within the O around the duck) so the image is transparent instead of white backed.  I can delete all those white area's in PSP with the lasso tool and then copy and overlay it on a transparent background.  Once I merge the image and save it...it is white again.  Does anyone know how to do this...and might be willing to fix this image for me (and tell me how they did it in the process).

For those of you unfamiliar, this is the old logo for the University of Oregon which is my alma mater.   

Thanks!!!

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Reply #1 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 8:50pm

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This may not be perfect for you, but it may be along the lines of what you are trying to achieve........


This is a   .gif  file........

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Reply #2 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 8:51pm

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This may not be perfect for you, but it may be along the lines of what you are trying to achieve........



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I duplicated the post so you could see it on both forum backgrounds........

 

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Reply #3 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:00pm

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Have you tried saving it with a transparent background as a .gif file?
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:00pm

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It's probably not completely perfect, but it doesn't look too bad

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Reply #5 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:54pm

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OK, thanks guys.  Was it not working because I was saving it as a jpg and not a gif?  If so, why won't a jpg work?
 
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Reply #6 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 11:12pm

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RichieB16 wrote on Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:54pm:
OK, thanks guys.  Was it not working because I was saving it as a jpg and not a gif?  If so, why won't a jpg work?


I think JPEG's save the background as well whereas the GIF's have a transparent background...It's the same with my avatar...It matches the background of the forums to match Wink
 

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