etherial: an idealized black vortex on a red field (myselfor)
etherial ([personal profile] etherial) wrote2007-03-19 04:36 pm

[livejournal.com profile] shogunhb for the Win!

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?

Re: GIF

[identity profile] etherial.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] etherial.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] kadath.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
D'oh, sorry, I have that set as my default.