Today I had a student, Henry, who wanted to take a picture he had gotten off the internet, make some changes, and use it on his web site. He was using Paint.net. He wanted the space around the picture, you know, the white stuff, to be "clear" so the background of the web page would bleed through. You can see what I mean on the Girl Scout Cookie picture in the Yummm posting below this posting.
He asked me how to do it, and I didn't know off the top of my head. Then he said, "Let's try saving it as a .gif, instead of a .jpg" And it worked!!
Such a simple thing, but it really made his page look much better. I'll definitely remember this trick.
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Thats really awesome. I have always wanted to learn how to do that in my own personal image editing programming. I have tried several different ways to do that and I just can't seem to get it to work.
Does anyone have Serif 6.0 PhotoPlus? That's what I am using and I'd really love to figure out how to edit a photo and keep the tranparent background.
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