transferring photoshop 7 files and keeping transparent background

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Amy_Pendry
Jul 24, 2004
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I am using Photoshop 7 on my OSX Macintosh and i need to transfer pictures i have cut out on the program to my PC with windows 98 (no photoshop) on to a PowerPoint presentation. The pictures show with a transparent background when they are just a psd file, however if i change them to any other file such as a jpg or a bitmap, there is a white background that suddenly appears around the picture. Is there an option or another file i can save this as so i can put just the pictures with no background onto powerpoint on my pc?
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Mac_McDougald
Jul 24, 2004
JPEG doesn’t support transparancy and PowerPoint doesn’t do PSD.

PowerPoint WILL honor transparency in uncompressed TIFF, though. Also GIF, but only 256 colors.

Not sure about 24 bit PNG, can’t remember.

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BobLevine
Jul 24, 2004
What version of PowerPoint? I think 2003 supports PNG, but have you tried setting the background color to transparent in PowerPoint?

Bob
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Mac_McDougald
Jul 24, 2004
tried setting the background color to transparent in PowerPoint?

Oh, you mean the background of the image you’re putting into PP?

One can always try that, but I have never once gotten good results with this (PP 2000).
Always ragged outline area, no feathering or actual selection options. Also, there’s no "contiguous" setting, so when you select a color to be transparent, that includes areas IN the picture also (which usually seems to come into play – seems that PP must "round off" color values here or something). Also, can only set ONE color as transparent.

Maybe it’s gotten better after my version?

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