Need Help with Making Bmp Files Transparent…

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NfsWiLL
Sep 21, 2003
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hello im new at Photo shop 7.1 im using a Halloween Pics i want to add in a Car game, i have a Black cat & other’s Im trying to just make the Cat show & the white Back Ground to be Transparent. alone with the rest of my Pics i want to use..

Yes i know i choose Edite,Preferece, then Transparency & Gum somthing. How do i use the Dropper on this what happens is my Cat is allways see threw and the Back Ground is allways Visable

just wished i could get the help i need to do my Project. wished i could post the cat pic here?. im working just with Bmp files. 8 bit & 24 bit.
the game needs this Tranparent Greyscale Back file along with the 24 bit texture one in front like. I need to make just the Cat show and the Rest Tranparent ok Im out of Clues on how to do thos Properly..ok cya. :{

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dave milbut
Sep 21, 2003
bmp does not support transparency. use tif, gif or png instead.
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NfsWiLL
Sep 21, 2003
ok i see dave Hmm 🙁 Umm can i make my Bmp’s jpg then try doing the Transparent thing then export as Bmp will it still hold the Tranparency then? or just use the gif format. Thx also Dave.
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Bob Levine
Sep 21, 2003
Which part of BMP files don’t support transparency are you having trouble with? There is simply no method of getting transparency to work with BMP files.

Bob
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dave milbut
Sep 21, 2003
JPG doesn’t support transparency either. As I said. GIF, PNG, TIF, PSD (and sometimes TGA, or EPS depending on the application).
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Bob Levine
Sep 21, 2003
The only way EPS will support transparency is with a clipping path. The format itself has no native support.

Bob
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NfsWiLL
Sep 21, 2003
thanks anyways Guys i Tried.. if i could post the pic here i would show you it, cant do that can i.
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r_harvey
Sep 21, 2003
Please no! Post a link to the image, or a page that contains the image, so that those who want to see it can load it in another window, and those who don’t, won’t be spending bandwidth on it.

Use code something like this, all on one line, without extra spaces:

<A HRef=
"http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/rocky.jpg" Target="_blank">
Rocky and Bullwinkle</A>

It becomes a link like this:

Rocky and Bullwinkle <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/rocky.jpg>
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NfsWiLL
Sep 22, 2003
test this here is what im want to do.
http://www.torchlake.com/joew/BlackCat.jpg
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dave milbut
Sep 22, 2003
bump what? do you have another question? or is something not clear?
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r_harvey
Sep 22, 2003
NfsWiLL,

You weren’t all that clear the first time. Bumping it up in the hopes that somebody will reread your posts and divine some additional insight between the lines, and solve your problem, may be folly.

BMP files are used mainly by MS Office; most graphics professionals use file formats mentioned by Dave–while you may want to export to BMP when you’re done editing. Have a look at the documentation (especially layers, transparency, file import/export), play with Photoshop for a day or two, try to succinctly describe the problem to yourself, then present it to the community–as a new post on this thread; it’ll bring it right back to the top.

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