Transparent Background Need Help
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9392
Printed Date: 30 September 2025 at 10:06am
Topic: Transparent Background Need Help
Posted By: IsoWayne
Subject: Transparent Background Need Help
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 2:06pm
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Jalonso recommended i post in the support forum to get some help for my problem with submitting 4 pieces to the gallery because they do not have transparency.
About the 4 pieces I sumbitted to the gallery, I first tried to download giffy and when the rar file finished it only contained a readme, which linked me to a site to download the program, when I got to the site it said I had to be a member of the yahoo usergroup associated with that downlaod so i just skipped that andd went on to iaza.com. iaza.com is very hard for me to navigate and whenever i tried to upload something it wouldnt accept it. So i did the next best thing I got the color of the background of the forum, applied it to my art and then uploaded it. I don't know what else to do than that. If anyone can help me fix the problem, I would be very appreciative. I am using WIndows Vista on my PC. |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 2:09pm
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I found this on google and others here do use it to pixel. Says free but I have no way of knowing if true http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Graphics_Editors/Grafx2.html - http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Graphics_Editors/Grafx2.html Search this section for further programs and help with them. ------------- |
Posted By: IsoWayne
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 2:47pm
| Thanks for looking jalonso, I downloaded that but it doesn't appear to do what I need it to do and it wants me to pay $30 for it after 7 days so I don't know if this is what others use or not. |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 3:01pm
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1. GrafX2 is free and open source software. If someone is charging you money for it after 7 days they're swindling you and you should notify the developers, who are great guys. The legitimate home page of the project is http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/ - here .
2. GrafX2 does not support transparency at this time. 3.Try Giffy.You can download it EDIT: Actually, that's very, VERY old version of GrafX2 before it was made free and open source, so don't report it to the developers. Also, yes, our giffy download is borked, just checked that out. I'll see if I can find a copy for you (and everyone) EDIT AGAIN: looks like this one works: http://www.brothersoft.com/giffy-download-16084.html - http://www.brothersoft.com/giffy-download-16084.html ------------- |
Posted By: IsoWayne
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 4:39pm
| Thanks Hatch, that link allowed me to download giffy succesfully and I got it to work so I know it runs and will work, my only problem now is that my current files are saved as pngs I opened them up and tried to resave them as gifs but when i did so the colors were changed and it put this weird filter over my artand just messed it up entirely, I don't know how to stop it from doing that when converting to gifs, any suggestions? |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 5:15pm
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This IS a nightmare with no workaround. Post the images you need here and I'll convert them for you into gifs in Photoshop. ------------- |
Posted By: IsoWayne
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 6:08pm
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Hey jalonso, just got back to the house, I found a really useful online utility that can convert images to any type of file easily.
http://www.online-utility.org/image_converter.jsp?outputType=GIF It is really handy and easy to use, maybe we can tell others about it who have this problem. Thanks for everyones help, I really appreciate it. EDIT : My issue is resolved and you may now close this thread if you wish. P.S. - I got all my art fixed and resubmitted YAY! |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2009 at 6:42pm
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