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Topic: Need help making an icon pretty, Are transparent backgrounds possible

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Posted: June 01 2006,16:07

I made an icon using xpaint and resized it with imagemagick to use for my isp dial up script. The problem is that my icon has an ugly white background and I was wondering if anyone knew a way to make the icon background transparent.

Thanks,
Mike

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Posted: June 01 2006,22:16

If it were me I'd use Gimp, even though I'm sure imagemagick has the ability to remove background color. I just prefer seeing what i'm doing when editing images rather than relying on some mathemagical function.

Anywho...in Gimp....

Duplicate the background to get a layer with useable transparency.
Delete the background layer.
Select the white around the image and cut it.
Touch up with an eraser if necessary.
Save as png or gif.

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Posted: June 05 2006,19:11

Thanks mikshaw, I should have looked at the imagemagick web page a little bit more before I posted my question. I found transparent is a command line option for convert so I just did convert -transparent white phone2.png phone3.png and no more background.

I haven't used gimp yet but I have heard it's like photoshop and I think that I might need a PC with more ram and MHz to use it. I know xpaint is pretty limited but I haven't been making too many icons.

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