Background problems...pleas help

[FireHead Hank]

I'm not sure if this is in the right section.

Yesterday I've finished a PixelOver of a Torkoal, I made it with Photoshop. The Picture had a white background so I earased it with the earaser tool. I saved my file and uploaded it to photobucket. I wanted to use my pixelover for my sig, so I put the image link in there and looked at the preview of my sig. And my Torkoal WITH THE EARASED BACKGROUND looked like this:
[IMG139]http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c232/NinJa-StyLe/HEATED%20BATTLES/Firekoal.png[/IMG139]
It has a background! why that? When I open it with the programs it has no background, so there's nothing I can remove! How can I get rid of it?

 

[Magma Leader Maxie]

Well, I can see the background too. It looks like small black dots here and there, but it's ruining the image.

Suggestion: Try opening the image with paint, then right click and choose "select all". Then, right click again and select "copy". Next, close paint and open it again (so you have a blank workspace). Go to edit >> paste and then choose a horrilble colour like acid green and fill the background with it.

Now you should see all the areas that have not been erased. Fill these with the same green colour. After you have filled all background areas that are not green, fill the whole green background with white. Save this picture and preform a transparency procedure ("white-be-gone") on the image, but if possible, try and save it to the CompuServe GIF format (.gif).

See if that works.

 

[chaos952]

IE has transparency issues, unlike Firefox.

 

[FireHead Hank]

Well, I can see the background too. It looks like small black dots here and there, but it's ruining the image.

Suggestion: Try opening the image with paint, then right click and choose "select all". Then, right click again and select "copy". Next, close paint and open it again (so you have a blank workspace). Go to edit >> paste and then choose a horrilble colour like acid green and fill the background with it.

Now you should see all the areas that have not been erased. Fill these with the same green colour. After you have filled all background areas that are not green, fill the whole green background with white. Save this picture and preform a transparency procedure ("white-be-gone") on the image, but if possible, try and save it to the CompuServe GIF format (.gif).

See if that works.

What is actually a transparency prodcedure(sorry but I never really worked with pictures and stuff..)? I did everything expect this procedure, now it has a white background(and paint ruined the colours,)... but thank you for your help!!

 

[Magma Leader Maxie]

You need a program like Selecto Bannershop GIF Animator 5 to do it. There's a description somewhere how you do it, and I've already described the procedure twice, if I recall correctly. But meh.

Once you have downloaded the program above and installed it, run the program and select "Animation Wizard" from the starting screen. Next, select "Animation from existing images" when prompted, and browse for the image you want to do the transparency on.

If you want a quick white-be-gone, one of the fan-art shop owners can do it for you. iluvwobbuffet has a shop where transparencies are done. The default frame delay is unimportant, so ignore it and leave it at "1". Once you click "finish", you will see your image ready to be made transparent. And here's how: click "File >> Save GIF image as" and choose a location for it to be saved to. Now click save. Before the image is saved however, you will get another prompt box. All you have to do now is aditionally put a tick in the box "Transparent". Click "OK" and you have your transparent image.

This same procedure can be done on other programs too, like Adobe Photoshop CS2, so try and figure out how it's done on it.

It's probably best that you do a much easier thing: let someone else preform a transparency. Shop owners in "Fan Art" will do it for you. I think iluvwobbuffet still runs the shop where WBGs are done, so try there.

 

[FireHead Hank]

man it finally worked! I opend it with photoshop(not with paint) and just saved it as a CompuServe GIF file(like you told me). thanks man!!

 

[Magma Leader Maxie]

Ah, good! But I forgot to mention that you should use another program to save the file as .gif, because paint sucks at doing that.

Well, I'm glad you sorted your image problem! Firekoal's lookin' good!