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October 16th, 2003, 11:47 PM

roofus

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I'm trying to make an avatar for another message board that bassically consists of a face and a transparent background. What I did was paste the picture that I wanted onto a transparent background, then erased everything that I didn't want. When I saved it, it all looked good, but when I tried to use it on the site, the background is white. Why is this happening?

October 17th, 2003, 03:32 AM

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maybe your saving as a jpg?

gif is the only format that supports transparency

October 17th, 2003, 07:15 AM

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PNG also supports transparency, but 100 times better than gif does. You can actually have opaque pixels. BUT M$ is too ridiculous to support PNG on their bower, so it doesn't show up correctly on IE.

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October 18th, 2003, 01:23 AM

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Here's a link that may be of interest on the topic of png's in ie.

PNG in Windows IE: The Solution

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