Using a transparent GIF
After an hour of frustration I'm turing to this group feeling totally inept. I'm trying to insert a transparent image into an existing photo using Photoshop Elements. I have an original photo I am trying to use as a background (I have tried using this photo in a jpg and a psd format). I have a second photo I have cut a logo out of and saved to a file with a transparent background (have tried psd, gif, and png formats). The new logo file has a the checkered background and seems to be transparent. I open the photo I want to be the background and drag the logo on top of it. A new layer is created but the transparent logo is surrounded by a gray box. I cannot see the background image through the areas that should be transparent. In other words, all the areas of the logo image that has a checkered background turns gray when I copy it on top of the background photo. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.
Select the move tool and drag the corner handles of the bounding box to scale the size.
Make sure show bounding box is checked in the options bar.
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import java.net.URL;
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import java.awt.event.*;
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static JTextArea bottomTextArea;
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It's really troubling since I've been stalking every forum I could find on the subject, however my research had deemed fruitless.
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> Hi guys,
>
> I created some text and applied the 'Dark Chrome 02'
effect to it. I went to
> export wizard, selected .gif and index transparancy. All
seemed good. But I
> noticed it had a white Matte. I changed that to
transparant but it ends up
> making it black. Is there no way to make it just..
transparant?
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import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.image.*;
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import javax.swing.*;
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This may not be the right forum to ask this, but I do not see an obvious place.
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I have photoshop, and sure you can make a transparent gif with that, but it is way too complex and not as simple as just select a pixel.
Am I missing something? Surely this simple function must be simple on a Mac. In the other world I use a simple free download MS gif editor. Pick a pixel and save. I am trying to find that on a Mac.{quote}
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There's never been enough time I've been using PS since v2 (which I got for free with a $1800 scanner that couldn't hold a candle to $300 scanners nowdays). I was switching over from *Aldus Digital Darkroom*
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