Photo House - making transparent GIF - Graphics

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:23:10 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

>I'm a registered user of Corel Photo House (CPH) (version 3.00.199).
>I'm using it today for first time in a year or so, to try to make a
>simple image transparent, for use on a web page. The image is just
>black text and a few black lines on white backgound. I dusted off CPH
>as I found PaintShop Pro (v7 or v8) non-intuitive, and as I'm in a
>hurry I wanted a no-brainer.
>
>On the face of it, that's what CPH appears to be. With my GIF in view,
>I choose Set Transparency and then click Remove Colour (to remove a
>single colour, in my case white). That's where I'm baffled; the white
>background turns GREY! So I cannot use the 'Choose a color'
>eye-dropper tool to select white. There *is* no white in the image
>now.
>
>Has to be something *very* fundamental...
>
>Hope someone here can help please.

It's probably turning gray to indicate that it now understands the
colour to be transparent. Did you try and see what happens?

Peter
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Peter Jones <noneoftheabove@earth.gov> wrote:

>It's probably turning gray to indicate that it now understands the
>colour to be transparent. Did you try and see what happens?

Thanks, Peter, that is indeed the case! I had not tried it on a web
page, but when I did so I found the transparency had been created.

Must say I find the UI a bit odd though. And, unless I've missed
something else, misleading too. Under Transparency I see 'None' is
checked. Yet that image does have a transparent white background,
which shows when opened in PSP or placed on web page. (And in CPH if
file is closed and reopened.)

However, the good news is that I finally discovered why I'd been
making heavy weather of it in Paint Shop Pro, so now don't need to use
CPH.

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Terry, West Sus**** UK