Quick photoshop question...

bigbadish · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:01

Guys,

making myself a sig in photoshop, have made one with some snippets of bits and bobs on a transparent background. Which I was hoping would just show the snippits when its on a forum for example. Unfortunately though the snippets do show, but there is a horrible white background..showing the size of the signature if you know what I mean.

I was thinking if I created a file with the tranparent option selected the background would be just that, transparent..

I guess I've done something wrong, but just not sure what and couldn't see an option or anything.

So any help appreciated.

Cheers

Sherbs · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:05

Transparancy is a bit iffy to say the least, you could use a png. But IE doesn't support it with transparancy. You'd have to use a GIF. and still set a matte colour thats like the background it'd be used on.

Brizzles · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:15

bigbadish said:
Guys,

making myself a sig in photoshop, have made one with some snippets of bits and bobs on a transparent background. Which I was hoping would just show the snippits when its on a forum for example. Unfortunately though the snippets do show, but there is a horrible white background..showing the size of the signature if you know what I mean.

I was thinking if I created a file with the tranparent option selected the background would be just that, transparent..

I guess I've done something wrong, but just not sure what and couldn't see an option or anything.

So any help appreciated.

Cheers

I get the same problem with P'shop Transparency and saving as JPEG's.

The workaround i use is to substitute the transparency for the exact match of the backgound you are overlaying it on. ( If that makes sense ).

Example ;

I matched the Blue background from the forum to give the appearance of transparency around the above sig.

Hope this helps.

Mark

bigbadish · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:17

Okey dokey, thanks for that I'll have a bash

I tried it without doing anything colour wise...the result

seems to work ok, which is good hehe.

I'm using Photoshop CS if that makes any difference.

Cheers

sunlitsix · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:31

that sig is too big if you intend to use it on these forums

400x75 max / 20kb size

RandomTom · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:33

Nicely done, although if you're planning on using it I'm afraid the limits are 400x75pixels

bigbadish · 16 Sep 2006 at 13:44

Nope, it was for another forum, just testing

Cheers.

Messiah Khan · 16 Sep 2006 at 14:44

mrdbristol said:
I get the same problem with P'shop Transparency and saving as JPEG's.

Thats because jpegs don't support transparancy, you'll need to save it as a .gif or .png
Nearly didn't recognise you there with your new shiny Wise Guy avatar.

Brizzles · 16 Sep 2006 at 14:52

bigbadish said:
Okey dokey, thanks for that I'll have a bash

I tried it without doing anything colour wise...the result

seems to work ok, which is good hehe.

I'm using Photoshop CS if that makes any difference.

Cheers

Looks great , nice job.

Mark

Brizzles · 16 Sep 2006 at 14:54

messiah khan said:
Nearly didn't recognise you there with your new shiny Wise Guy avatar.

Yeh , I'm officially " Wise " , God help us all .

bigbadish · 16 Sep 2006 at 18:32

mrdbristol said:
Looks great , nice job.

Mark

Thanks, much appreciated.