RE: Transparent areas on images used inPictureButton

I have never had any success in getting Forte to recognize the transparent
areas of GIF images on PictureButtons. I use two different techniques to
achieve this "transparent" look:
(1) Monochrome bitmaps DO behave as truly transparent images, both on
PictureButtons and in OutlineFields, under all Forte's supported
windowing systems and no matter what you use for the FillColor of
the button or outline. (But then of course you can't use colours
in your image.)
(2) If the PictureButton's FillColor is Inherit or White, you will see
that any white pixels in your image appear grey. You can make use
of this by making the background of the image some colour which is
not used in the picture itself, and setting the FillColor of the
PictureButton to that colour. You have to choose this colour carefully.
Even if you pick a colour from the standard Windows 16-colour palette,
say red, you will find that it doesn't match the Forte colour Bright Red
under all possible Control Panel colour depth settings. The only
colours which work all the time are white, black and light grey (Forte's
Gray 2) but of course these are all colours you normally want to use
in the picture itself! If you are developing exclusively for Windows
clients, you can always use Gray 2, since the PictureButtons are going
to look this colour anyway, regardless of the FillColor you assign or
the button colour the user has chosen in the Control Panel Display
settings. (At least, this is so for V2 - I don't know about V3 but
from what you've said it sounds like it is the same.)
I would love to know if there are any other ways to do this because I
nearly went mad trying to make images on PictureButtons and OutlineFields
transparent under all 3 windowing systems!
Fiona Symon,
Babylon Software Pty Ltd.

I tried expanding the canvas (using Photoshop) to a 16 x 9 width-to-height ratio with Black fill. Worked perfectly in iPhoto.
Thanks for the tip about the wrong aspect ratio.

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RE: Transparent areas on images used inPictureButtons

Thanks all for the responses.
I have talked with Forte Tech Support and there is a way to get this to
work. To get transparent areas in an image on a PictureButton, you
simply manipulate the FillColor of the PictureButton widget itself.
Apparently, Forte takes the fill color of the button and makes it the
transparent color for the image. For instance, if you set the fill color
for the PictureButton to white, then any white areas on the image become
transparent.
A Tech Note should appear shortly explaining this issue.
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I have a GIF image with transparent areas that I'd like to use in a
PictureButton. Will Forte recognize the transparent areas in the GIF
format and color those areas with the system settings for buttons? I've
tried everything I could think of, but the transparent areas are still
being painted gray.
I am running Forte 3.0d on Windows 95.
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I tried expanding the canvas (using Photoshop) to a 16 x 9 width-to-height ratio with Black fill. Worked perfectly in iPhoto.
Thanks for the tip about the wrong aspect ratio.

How to exclude transparent areas in Image Trace

I have a logo file, saved as PNG, that is black on transparent. Very simple file, just stylized black lettering on a transparent background. In Illustrator CS5, I can place that file, do a "Live Trace" in "Lettering" mode, and Illustrator will correctly ignore the transparent areas when I expand the trace. After expanding, I'm left with scalable paths and an easy way to change the fill color to have the logo work with my background.
Fast forward to Illustrator CS6. I try to do the same thing but a) there is no "lettering" preset for Image Trace and b) there is no setting I have yet found to cause Illustrator to ignore the transparent areas when I expand. If I then fill, everything inside the bounds of the placed image (the square containing the logo) is filled with that color. The only way I've found to get similar results is to go through the layers panel after the Expand and deselect each piece of the image that should not be filled. I have a hard time believing this is the desired approach.
I freely admit that I'm an Illustrator novice and I suspect that there is something one of you Illustrator experts thinks is obvious that I'm missing. I'd sure appreciate some guidance in the right direction.

I doubt that the Trace feature in CS 6 is a big improvement to CS 5
Here look what might help you with this you might even be able to do a better job in Photoshop.
I'm using your screen shot so the trace is not a good one but shows you the steps you can take to make this work better.
Even though it is an image you can edit the colors some what here I went to Edit>Edit Colors>Adjust Color Balance ad turn the Cyan down to "0" and move the black slide a bit higher as well.
The I did my trace and remove the clipping paths there are 2 clipping paths the way you remove the path and compund path for the square is to select one edge of the psth with the direct select tool, you need smark guides turned on to see the paths.
the hit delete and the hit delete again and repeat for the second compound path as such path willpreven the sqaure to becoming a background filled path.
It should be noproblem filling this without a Live Paint Group it is just that you are not familiar with what is happening to the art.

Add ability to select background display color for transparent areas of image

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Agreed! Even primitive Mac Finder preview can show transparent alpha channel! Most Image browsing programs have this ability. Bridge CS4 is becomming finally usable, but this feature is a must!

Importing Images w/ Transparent Areas

Hi Folks,
I'm working on creating a form and I am creating graphics for layout. I am using Illustrator CS3 to create them, but when I try the various formats of files, I cannot get them to display properly in Designer ES2.
EPS - The CMYK color in ES2 is much different than my Illustrator colour
TIFF - According to the help doesn't support CMYK?
"Designer ES2 supports Monochrome (1 color component 1-bit depth), Greyscale (1 color component 8-bit depth), RGB (3 color components 8-bit depth), and Palette (1 color component 1,2,4,8-bit depths) TIF images. "
PNG - It is not including my transparent areas
JPG - Does not support transparency
BMP - Does not support CMYK and transparency
GIF - Does not support CMYK
Anyone been able to find a good format that supports CMYK and transparency?
Scott

Hi Scott,
I have used PNG, but you need to save them for 'web & devices' in Photoshop. Illustrator CS4 also has a 'save for web& devices' as well. Not sure about CS3.
This is the only way I know of getting CMYK (or RGB) images with transparencies into LC designer.
Good luck,
Niall

Is there a way to LIST OUT all of the active images that are currently being used on a page in Dreamweaver?

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Alternatively use a browser:
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Using area of image as button (active area)

Hello
I have image (jpg) that is displayed in applet and I'd like to change portion of it into let's say button. I would see image as I did before but when I move mouse over this button area something would happen (listener).
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Cheers

yes and yes.
the easy way is this:
put the image in one component, and put the button over top of it. there are a couple ways to do this:
subclass JPanel or JComponent (different people have different preferences here) and override the paint component method to paint the image.
THEN, Override either abstract button or JButton (again, different camps think differently here), and override the paint method (not the paint component method) to do absolutely NOTHING.
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- Adam

Select a small area and then use the selected area to paint other areas of the image

Hello
My problem is a little hard to explain but I try.
What I want is to select a small area and then use the selected area to paint other areas of the image. Do not know how to do it and if it's stamp tools or pen tools to be used?

Howdy.
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Bug and workaround: Transparent areas in After Effects are opaque in Premiere Pro using Dynamic Link

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I've been pulling my hair out over this and finally went to my printer to ask if they had insight as to why this is happening. I'll include his reply here but would like to hear your expert opinions too!
When laying out a file in InDesign, I do a lot of overlapping, feather and some drop shadow and always get a colored shadow behind the transparency area when printing out from a pdf. These files are being designed for print, which is what I thought InDesign was created for - as an updated alternative to Quark and Pagemaker? Here is what the printer says:
"Ive taken a look at the file in question and the issues this lady is experiencing can not be resolved in InDesign. What she needs to do is build the background image with color overlays all in Photoshop as a Layered PSD. Then flatten it and pull it in to InDesign as a Tiff. Then she can place her text over the top of it. She needs to use image masks on the color overlays - for the areas she does not what the color to violate.
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http://displaysunlimitedinc.com/test/panel_3_text.pdf
There is a 1 inch blur drop shadow on the black and white temple image; a 1 inch feather on the black and white screened back image behind the main text box; and no drop shadow or feather on the map at top right, yet I get a colored shadow behind all 3 of these areas when I export the indd file to pdf and print that out. The fact that I get a shadow behind the map puzzles me.
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Horgycat,
The CMYK/RGB question is actually pretty complex, and depends to a great extent on how the final output is going to be produced.
If the files are destined for a printing press, all RGB elements must be converted to CMYK prior to printing. You have the option of doing that before placing in ID, or during export to PDF, and there are pros and cons to both methods, but if you don't know until the last minute what the print conditions will be, the convert on export path is more flexible.
Spot colors are a different matter. As far as I'm concerned, you should NEVER specify a spot color unless you are actually using spot ink on a press. A lot of inkjet and laser devices claim to be Pantone certified, but the reality is that even with expanded gamuts available using more than four inks, I'd estimate that better than half the Pantone solids are not reproducible as simulations that would satisfy me or my clients. The convert spot to process route should only be used, in my opinion, when you've designed a job properly to be printed using spot colors, and suddenly you have an output change or an added image that forces you to move to a process output. The last time I tried it, by the way, I had issues at the printer (the regular prepress guy was out of town, so I'm not sure what went wrong) and I ended up re-building the file with real process colors to get the transparency to work.
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Hi together.
I have a Indesign table with 3 columns. First col. is the item-no., second col. is product descr. and third col. is the price. The first col. is much wider than it needs to be because I have a small image of the product following the item-no. The image is placed on top of the table (text).
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RE: Transparent areas on images used inPictureButton

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