Re: Icon problems HELP!!!

["Eliot Hemingway" <corbeaubm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, in Photoshop at least, a checkerboard pattern is used to designate a 
completely transparent area.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <VinsFullThrust@xxxxxxx>
To: <ftjava-test@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Icon problems HELP!!!


> textfilter: chose text/plain from a multipart/alternative
>
>
> In a message dated 8/9/2005 1:23:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> scspieker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> I can  help with the Paintshop Pro.  Once you have your image set,  there
> should be a contrasting color as the 'transparent' part bordered up  to 
> the
> outside edge of the icon itself (black against a white border,  etc).
>
> Choose the Selection Menu -> Select all.
> Choose Selection  -> Modify -> Transparent Color.
> Choose the correct color (Background  color is what I prefer) as the color
> to set as the transparent.
> Choose  File -> Save As (Compuserve GIF) -> Run Optimizer
> Choose the  Transparency Tab -> Outside the Current Selection, or Areas
> that Match  this color (the color is displayed).
>
> Choose  Save.
>
>
>
>
> Ok, when I do this,before I chose save, the background look checkerboard, 
> is
> that a problem or should it be transparet even with the checkerboard 
> look?
>