making jpegs, border transparent for web

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radicalcyborg
Jun 27, 2004
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Heres my problem, i have a body background as a .gif.Then i have two buttons as jpgs. The buttons have a white border around them. I need to make the white part transparent.I have been playing around with making the buttons gif… Heres what im talking about <http://www.radicalcyborgs.com/whatshot1.html>
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Don_McCahill
Jun 27, 2004
JPEG does not support transparency. Use GIF.
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Colin_Walls
Jun 27, 2004
Don’s advice is sound, but sometimes people get the effect of transparency by simply using the same colour as the Web page background.

To be clear: this is a limitation of the JPEG format, not of PS.

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