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[etherial]

Google's new thingy is exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need a way for the parts outside of the round to show up as translucent instead of white. Ideas?

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

GIFs are what you need to do transparency.

re: GIF

[etherial.livejournal.com]

SketchUp outputs to .jpg, .png, .bmp, .pdf, .eps, .tif, .epx .dwg, and .dxf. Do you know how to turn one of them into a .gif that would transparentize the whitespace?

Re: GIF

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I would do it in GIMP, which supports transparency in its native file format and exports to GIF. However, you're likely to have raggedy edges, because it's a circle.

Re: GIF

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Raggedy edges aren't much of an issue given how much I'm scaling the image down (at least when I'm making an icon out of it). If I were to open the .jpg up in GIMP, is there an easy way to delete the whitespace?

Re: GIF

[kadath.livejournal.com]

You'll need to copy it over to a format that supports transparency, so just copy-paste into a new file. Then choose the select by color option, click on any part of the whitespace, and ctrl-x to delete it. You should see a checkerboard pattern in the background where the white used to be. Then you can scale or whatever and save as a GIF.

Re: GIF

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help. I just wished I realized I wasn't scaling the image down. I guess I'll have to redo it even bigger in order to shrink it.

PS - alpha layer has to be turned on before you can successfully delete whitespace.

Re: GIF

[kadath.livejournal.com]

D'oh, sorry, I have that set as my default.

Re: GIF

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Good enough now, I think. I carefully deleted all of the "yellow fading into white" pixels which leaves it as a pixelated circle.

[qedrakmar.livejournal.com]

Print it out on Saran Wrap? I'm sure that won't be messy at all.