Making your sig bg transparent

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:48 am

okay um i make it transparent on photoshop (its the checkered bg right?) but when i actually post it on a forum the bg is white and rlly ugly...so if anyone knows how to fix that pls tell me! thnax

Shimohime · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 788 **Location:**

did you save it as .gif?

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:52 am

no...does it have to be gif?

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:57 am

but the thing is photoshop doesn't have the gif option

Shimohime · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 788 **Location:**

save as >> .gif

.jpeg does not support transparency. only .png and .gif support transparency, however, internet explorer render .png files incorrectly. therefore, your only choice is .gif.

taintofsleep · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 723 **Location:**

oh, thats why... lol

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:46 am

yeah, i went save as> filenamehere.gif, but it doesnt work cus in the drop down section where u choose the format gif isnt one of the choices

5m0k3 · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 426

save it as a .png

thats what i do

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

5m0k3 wrote:

save it as a .png

thats what i do

Perfect example of why i dont do it, his sig

Geedunk · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 787

CrimsonNuker wrote:

5m0k3 wrote:

save it as a .png

thats what i do

Perfect example of why i dont do it, his sig

Lol - png is the way to go. Better quality than jpg, but a bit bigger, and it supports transparent backgrounds.

naljamees51 · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 1054 **Location:** Estonia

i usually save all my images in png :roll:

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:55 pm

okay, but even i DO save it as png it still doesnt work :banghead:

grrr this is frustrating!

Geedunk · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 787

My internet just shut down -_-

Shimohime · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 788 **Location:**

use .gif. I know .png is better quality, but .png doesn't work in internet explorer...

Mage Pker · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1102 **Location:**

use .png, .gif takes forever to upload

WrathShielder · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 745 **Location:**

Cyndaine wrote:

yeah, i went save as> filenamehere.gif, but it doesnt work cus in the drop down section where u choose the format gif isnt one of the choices

I haven't reinstalled my photoshop since the last time my harddrive bit the big one but can't you save it as a .jpg and then open it in something like IrfanView and then save it as a .gif or will it lose the transparency in the transition?

Geedunk · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 787

Shimohime wrote:

use .gif. I know .png is better quality, but .png doesn't work in internet explorer...

1) My IE shows it fine
2) Your IE sucks
3) Microsoft sucks
4) .gif sucks.

Comprende?

Shimohime · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 788 **Location:**

Wow, I have a sig. You know, on a browser, I can so totally tell the difference in quality between a .gif and and a .png

/sarcasm

Cyndaine · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:02 am

geedunk: thats exactly what i did, like what you did in ur tut (even though i didn't need to know cus i already knew what ur were telling me to do)

MY PROBLEM is that even if i do save it as png it still doesn't work. ugly white bg comes up.

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