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Save a JPG without a background
You can't save transparency to a .jpg. The file format simply doesn't support it. Anything that is transparent will become white when saved to a .jpeg.
Try .png or .gif, those file formats do accept ...
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JPEG with transparent background
JPG does not allow transparent backgrounds.
The only thing you can do is have a flat color background that would blend into your website: eg. if your website background is white, then have JPGs ...
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Text I made in Photoshop becomes blurry when exported as JPG or PNG
This in not blurriness, but the JPEG compression doing its thing. Strong colour contrasts between irregular shapes are always distorted like this by the compression in a .jpg. We call them 'artefacts'....
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JPEG with transparent background
JPEG doesn't support transparency at all.
Most compatible option is to use PNG, but results in large files for photographs because it is lossless compression.
Another option is to use the new WebP ...
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JPEG with transparent background
While the JPEG format can't handle transparency itself, it is entirely possible to have transparency using JPEGs with modern browsers. It is, however, complicated. It involves using SVG to create a ...
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How to remove scribbles on a screenshot
No.
A JPG is a raster image with no concept of layers or history or anything of the kind that would let you revert it to a previous state or remove anything leaving what was underneath intact.
The ...
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JPEG with transparent background
JPEG 2000 (also known as JP2) is an improved version of the original JPEG format (from 1992) that also has full support for transparency, but it has abysmal browser support (only Safari supports it).
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Can .jpg have transparency?
The file you linked to isn't a JPG. It's a PNG* with the wrong file extension. Maybe somebody changed it deliberately for some unknown reason, or they just saved it with the wrong file extension.
JPG ...
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How to crop a JPG without recompressing?
FreeVImager can do this with nice GUI.
It also can do lossless rotation of JPEGs (90 deg rotations are loseless).
It's FOSS, so if you're on Linux, it's worth getting Wine for one.
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How do I trace this bitmap with JPEG artifacts?
The bad news: With automatic tracing algorithms alone, you won't be able to get a clean result. There will always be noise.
The good news: If you're willing to invest just a bit of effort in manual ...
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How to crop a JPG without recompressing?
Irfanview has lossless JPG cropping and rotation functions:
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What is the easiest way to reduce the file size of a TIFF without losing too much of the image's quality?
I would resave the TIFF file with LZW compression turned on. That should get the size down considerably.
Edit:
If you are using Photoshop, you would simply "Save As", choose .TIF as your format and ...
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Adobe Illustrator - Linked Images Disappearing
Manly is correct that the file is linked, as it should be, and you can simply uncheck "linked" in the dialog when placing an image.
If you drag and drop an image directly in to your document (which ...
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Photoshop CC: convert to frame timeline releases only one frame
Eventually discovered this solution, hope it helps somebody:
timeline > convert frames > flatten frames into clips
timeline > convert frames > make frames from clips
delete video group at bottom (to ...
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Why does Photoshop want to save JPEG as quality '10' out of 12?
If you really are sensitive to the quality then you should avoid JPEG. You already lost quality when the original image was saved as JPEG and nothing can bring this quality back. In general, you ...
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Save a JPG without a background
jPeg images save automatically with a flat solid background. You will be able to achieve saving your image with a transparent background to .png format.
It won't work with JPEG format.
Some ...
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Is it possible to lock a jpg's size so it can't be stretched when used?
No, you cannot prevent someone from distorting an image because transforming the image is done by the program. You can only tell them not to distort the logo by sending the companies branding ...
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How was this Path embedded in a JPG image?
Photoshop has had the ability to save paths in JPGs for a while. (CS5.5 I think, might have been CS6)
As long as you don't use Save for Web and use Save As for JPG, they'll be there if the jpg is ...
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Photoshop shortcut for File, Save As, Format: PNG or JPG, Save, OK
Open the actions window (Window → Actions or Alt+F9), then create and record and action.
Now just apply to it a hotkey (one of the function keys) Add it by going to action options.
You can record ...
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Convert .JPG to Vector
Well, jpg files are raster files, so they don't have any vector or text data saved in them that can be modified in Illustrator. Image > Trace is probably your best bet to get your image back into ...
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Why does Photoshop want to save JPEG as quality '10' out of 12?
1) The facts
The reason you have a higher settings than 10/12 is becouse 12/12 is a higher setting.
Here are some compression tests following my methodology explained here (In spanish, please use ...
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If you download a picture and rename the picture to a different extension, does the file change?
No. Changing the extension is a bit like changing the label on the soy sauce dispenser to say "Maple syrup". The results will not be useful and may be unpleasant.
FWIW, in some cases, when you open ...
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Adobe Illustrator - Linked Images Disappearing
It's not an oversight...
Linked images will always need to be left in the same place you originally linked them from or you can edit/update your links via the Window > Links menu. The program can't ...
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How to export JPGs at different sizes without losing image quality?
The answer (in this case) is to save as PNG. If they want 300ppi JPGs for the web – then they don't know what the hell they're doing over there.
The fact is – with solid color graphics such as these ...
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Need to improve the quality of images with GIMP
The simple technique
Use the Curves tool.
If you look at the image histogram:
The hump (1) is a peak frequency of dark pixels and is your text
The hump (2) is a peak frequency of light pixels and ...
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How can I reopen my psd file and view the layers?
You can't.
When you save to jpg you create a flat file without layers and no layer information is retained. You threw away all layers when you saved as a jpg. There is no way to get layers back.
If ...
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jpeg colours not displaying correctly in Chrome, FF and Safari
Your *.jpg file has most probably a CMYK (print) colour profile embedded. Lots of browsers will then distort the colours. Try and re-save the files with an RGB profile and you'll be right as rain.
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What should dpi be when saving artwork for web?
Traditionally, screen resolution has been 72dpi, though newer high-res monitors like Apple's Retina displays can go up to 400dpi.
That said, when saving images for the web, image resolution doesn't ...
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