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How can you save an image that is non-square, like a ball for instance?
It seems whenever you save an image, it can only be saved on a square field. I need the portions of the saved image, that contain no image, to be transparent.
This is particularly important for websites that have a certain background color.
Let’s say a website has a gray background. You want to display an orange-colored basketball. When you save the basketball image in Adobe Photoshop, it seems you can only save it as a square, with certain dimensions, that contains the image of the basketball. When you display the basketball on the gray website, you see the white trim around the ball … exposing those areas of the square that do *not* contain the image of the basketball.
To get around this, I have been saving the images on a background that matches that of the website. But that makes the image unsuitable for other uses, forcing you always to edit the background of the image to match the background of the website – a pain in the ass. The image cannot be generically used from website to website.
How do I make those edges transparent for website suitability?
Thanks!
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David Emerling – Memphis, TN
If you want to email me – remove HATESPAM from the above address.
It seems whenever you save an image, it can only be saved on a square field. I need the portions of the saved image, that contain no image, to be transparent.
This is particularly important for websites that have a certain background color.
Let’s say a website has a gray background. You want to display an orange-colored basketball. When you save the basketball image in Adobe Photoshop, it seems you can only save it as a square, with certain dimensions, that contains the image of the basketball. When you display the basketball on the gray website, you see the white trim around the ball … exposing those areas of the square that do *not* contain the image of the basketball.
To get around this, I have been saving the images on a background that matches that of the website. But that makes the image unsuitable for other uses, forcing you always to edit the background of the image to match the background of the website – a pain in the ass. The image cannot be generically used from website to website.
How do I make those edges transparent for website suitability?
Thanks!
—
David Emerling – Memphis, TN
If you want to email me – remove HATESPAM from the above address.
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