Everything you ever wanted to know about transparency but were afraid to ask.
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Can I extract shadows from a texture to make a transparent image (png)?
I have this image:
And I would like to extract the dark parts (shadows) to make a transparency consisting of black pixels at different alpha channel values. Here is a crude example image of what I ...
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Can I apply more than 1 transparency to one object in CorelDRAW?
I have a background image with linear transparency applied on the top of my image. I would like to replicate the same transparency on the bottom of the image. How can I do this?
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Separating a stock photograph from background
I purchased some stock images for a website I'm building (I'm a programmer, with relatively no design experience at all). The issue at hand is, like most stock images, the images I purchased are on ...
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Why does my transparent PNG not look good?
I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my ...
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Making the background of an image transparent
I have some jpg images and I need for each of them to have a transparent background.
I have GIMP as a graphic tool.
I need to put them in a web page and I need to see just the main element and have a ...
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Spot Color Transparency and Screens in Illustrator
(Illustrator CS5)
I have a design that will be printed on a line printer. Possible are up to 7 colors, or a 4-color process with 3 line colors.
I'm currently sticking to PMS only (only 5 PMS colors ...
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How to make a transparent image a non transparent one?
I am a newbie to Photoshop and I have a PSD file that contains a transparent button. Now I want to duplicate that button and move it to somewhere else. When I moved it I realized that the button is ...
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Replace black background with a transparent background
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders.
Could ...
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Photoshop - Extracting a transparent shadow from an image
I have a layer that contains a brushed metal texture. The layer has an inner shadow effect.
I'd like to extract just that shadow with transparency, so I can later superpose the pure background ...
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Compositing transparent paths so topmost pixel wins
I'm having difficulty wording what it is I want to accomplish, but I'll try to explain. Let's start with the images below:
(a) (b)
Image (a) shows the image as I have it right now, ...
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How to make an animated gif with a transparent background without overlap?
When I try to make a gif with two frames both of which have a transparent background in GIMP, what happens is that the first frame looks OK, then the second frame appears on top of it, such that you ...
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Formula for finding out the result of a color after applying x% opacity to it?
I have 2 colors
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black (#000000)
white (#ffffff)
Now I need to know how much opacity (in a percent) must I apply to the second color (black) against a background of the third color (white) ...
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Copy & Pasting from Photoshop to Illustrator loses transparency
I often run into this issue. I'm creating a file in Photoshop with masked layers etc. I want to make the final output available for some mock-ups in Illustrator, so I rasterize the layers and marquee ...
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Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent
I have an image of smoke over a black background. If I set the blending mode of this layer to screen, the image's background is perfectly edited out, however if there isn't another layer below this, ...
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Transparency to unpremultiplied RGB + Alpha
I have a transparent layer in Photoshop CS5 (so internally, it's most probably stored as unpremultiplied RGB component plus an alpha component per pixel).
Now I want to transform this to an opaque ...
