Everything you ever wanted to know about transparency but were afraid to ask.
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How to colorize a layer with semi transparent borders to a specific color in GIMP?
I have an white icon that needs to be colorized to a specific color. How do I do it in GIMP?
Keep in mind that it has semi transparent borders and transparent background, so using the bucket or ...
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InDesign and transparency flatteners location
I have InDesign CS5 on Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard, and created a new transparency flattener style called test1 as a preset.
I'm interested to know, where is my custom preset stored on Mac OS X; ...
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Is it possible to have a the magic eraser apply to ALL layers at once?
I have a gif of characters dancing on a white background, and I want to use the magic eraser (or an equivalent selection tool) to select and clear the white background to make it transparent.
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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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How flatten transparency without rasterization?
I have a simple illustration in CorelDraw with overlapping simi-transparent curves with uniform fillings, and I need to export it to EPS while maintaining everything in vector form. It is perfectly ...
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Remove transparent when rotate 3D ps6
I have 3D image and this is several 3D layers merged in one. But when I try to rotate it layers become transparent
What I should do if I want to remove this "transparent effect"?
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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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Make part of image transparent in GIMP [duplicate]
Using Gimp, I want to make a small part of an image transparent. However, when I use colour to alpha, it turns the whole image partially transparent by removing the colour from all pixels.
Is there ...
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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 ...
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Photoshop cloning non opaque image
Using Photoshop CS6, I have a PNG with some transparencies with soft edges.
I need to clone a semi-transparent area, but when I do that I always end up overlapping the original image, losing the ...
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Batch replacing color with transparency
I have a very large number of PNG images (too many to practically do one at a time) with a bright pink background and would like to replace the background color with transparency. If this is not ...
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How do I handle thumbnails of white-on-transparent pngs in Bridge?
When handling multiple white-on-transparent png images, I am hindered by the fact that the thumbnails of these images are all-white. Both Adobe Bridge CS6 and Windows Explorer suffer the same problem, ...
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How can I remove white pixels around circles when exporting this to gif?
I took the loaders from here:
http://xooplate.com/template/details/10888-5-animated-loading-spinner-action-icons-psd
Than I exported them easily, with the help of the included action to a gif. But I ...
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Photoshop - turn white transparent, specifically preserving shadows - new issue
I have read articles all over the internet today. While some questions and answers are similar to my issue, none precisely cover my problem.
I am currently doing CAD work for a website where my ...
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Photoshop: How to use a non-white background as the basis for semitransparent layers in PNG8 export?
PNG8 is a great compressed format when we don't really need semi-transparency. Often an asset will have semi-transparency data that we're happy to lose in the export process, however Photoshop ...
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Size and transparency differences when saving PNG by different methods
I'm exporting PSD layers to PNGs for a game's texture atlases.
When I'm doing Copy -> New File (RGB 8-bit) -> Save As PNG, the resulting PNG is quite heavy and Finder shows white background ...
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How to extract the black and white components of an image to superimpose it over colored backgrounds
Say I want to create a glowing button for a website. I would like to have the possibility to dynamically change the color of that button by changing the color of it's background.
For this I need to ...
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How do I create a tapered opacity effect around an image in gimp?
I'd like my image to blend into the background gradually around the edges on a web project I'm working on. How do I fade transparency around the edge of an image in gimp?
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Forcing transparency on layers below
I am pretty new at Gimp, so not sure if this is possible at all.
Let's say I have two lines like this, and I give the impression one line is on top of the other by clipping at the intersection, like ...
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Key out white of embedded image in Illustrator
I have an Illustrator document with a number of images embedded. The images are all illustrations on a white background. I need to remove the white so that the art behind shows through. I know there ...
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How to draw a image transparent in photoshop?
This arrow is transparent image.
I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop.
The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app.
It would ...
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Add transparency to an existing PNG
I'd like to use this image on a web site.
What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background.
I used Gimp to ...
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Photoshop “Save as PDF” doesn't retain the transparency
So I have this PSD with several transparent layers.
As I need to hand out the file for a professional printing, I export it through Photoshop (CS5) using the usual PDF/X-4:2008 PDF 1.4 profile to ...
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How to edit an animated gif in gimp to include transparency?
I have an ajax spinner which unfortunately has a white background in the corners. I want to remove the white and make it transparent using GIMP. How can I go about doing that? I tried opening it in ...
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Black-white and grayscale to alpha conversion for images
Is there an utility for converting all black-white and grayscale images from certain folder to the same images with adjusted alpha channel?
For example, for pixel (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:0) I would like ...
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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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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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Why does painting with 1% opacity not always do something?
I tried this with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. When I have a black background, and a white brush with an opacity of 1%, the color should get brighter if I click onto the same spot over and over again. ...
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Text transparent with shadow in Photoshop
Example:
In the example image is House Gothic Font 3D Shadow and House Gothic font 3d Normal. How can I make it in Photoshop? the same effect like in the example with the font on the top ...
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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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bmp alpha channel issues
SlavaSoft Paint Express is an image editor that I try to use for re-shaping one of my Android app's assets. It takes in a .png file, auto-convertit to .bmp (it can't work with PNG format), I do the ...
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Flatten transparency of derivative colors
I'm creating an illustration in Ai CS3 heavily using symbols. I need to create derivative symbols, out of other symbols, with lighter colors. The transparency tool is for color seek, but as soon as I ...
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Get transparent color to create specific color on a specific background
I've got some Images like this one:
Now I need to find out the color which will become the orange in the right center of the image when drawn on a new layer with 50% opacity (The Background is the ...
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How can I set the Photoshop pencil tool to auto erase to transparent?
Photoshop's pencil tool has a setting for "auto erase". When set, clicking on a pixel of the current foreground color causes it to draw over it with the background color. This is great if you're ...
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Fill an area while keeping transparency
In Paint.NET I'd like to change the color of an icon by using the fill tool, but I want to preserve the alpha-channel of the pixels. There's the same question for Photoshop, but I can't find a ...
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Gimp - Using an image as the transparency layer of another image
I have two images (For the sake of simplicity, Image1 and Image2). I want to use Image2 as a transparency for Image1.
How can I do that? Assume I've done little more with Gimp than play with some ...
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Save Illustrator as PDF with transparent background
Is there a way to export my artwork as PDF so that it has a transparent background? Something like exporting objects only... whenever I try to save my .ai as pdf, it always comes with a full white ...
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Convert foreground motif to degrees of transparency?
I have a 24-bit PNG where the motif is a subtle pattern. The pattern itself is in light greys, i.e. the background color of the PNG is #eee and the pattern is in a range of slightly darker greys.
I ...
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Adobe Illustrator - Masking using layers with stroke?
I'm working with Google Maps in making a campus map comprised of a number of tile overlays. Two of these overlays- accessibility (paths) and parking- are layered under other elements (with strokes) ...
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“Replace” image (gradient) in image with alpha
Consider the following graphic:
Note that the first image's background is transparent, and that the blue background in the second and third images is a subtle gradient - not solid color.
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Coloured background in illustrator that isn't included in export
I have an illustrator document with many artboards. Almost all the artwork is white and needs to be exported as (transparent) pngs. In order to see the artwork I have to put a large grey rectangle ...
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export icon from illustrator to Photoshop with transparency
I have an icon in illustrator but when I export to Photoshop I get white around the shadow in the image. Please advise how to remove the white. I have the icon in layers.
original ai file
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What to avoid when using negative shapes / text for logos expected to be placed on a glass door
I'm not a designer (as is probably obvious from the vague question), but I'm being asked to design the signage that will go on the front of our offices. Our logo is deliberately simple, blocky white ...
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Using GIMP, can you “erase” a color?
I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is ...
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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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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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Advanced shadow and highlight extract with transparency
I want to blend this image dynamically over a background. So, I want to extract it as a PNG with transparency.
I photographed the ship-in-a-bottle on a surface that is roughly the colour of the ...
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Subtract object's stroke from adjacent objects (to create a border of negative space)
I really don't know how to explain this in words in a simple way, so just take a look at the photo I've linked to below. I have a compound path, and I want to multiply it, but have a "stroke of ...
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Adobe Photoshop - How to turn text into a “hole” in a layer, so I will see the background through it.
Okay, this should be super easy to do but I just can't find the way.
I have a background image with a solid colour layer on top of it, and I would like to add text on top of everything in such a way ...
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is PNG-24 being converted to PNG-32 in Photoshop?
when i save an image in Photoshop as a PNG-24 with trans on, does PS actually convert that to PNG-32 but not tell me about it?
