Hello,

How do I make the backgrounds of a JPG or GIF transparent?

I decided to add a background color to my website. I thought it looked good. That is until I realized that all my graphics aren't transparent.

I have Paint Shop Pro, so any ideas would be great.

The link you can see an example on is:

http://www.stpsports.com/field_gym_directions.shtml

you can only really make GIF transparent...
you can make JPGs look like its transparent by using same background color to the site...

i really have no experience with paintshop pro whatsoever...
but here's what i found:

http://www.digital-foundry.com/paintshop/gif/psp2.shtml

g'luck ;)

In PaintShop Pro, you just go Colors > Set Palette Transparency. You may be prompted to reduce your colour depth to 256 colors. Once that's done, just click on the colour on your image that you wish to make transparent and click OK.

And yes, only GIF images can have transparency.

And I just realised that I've just repeated what's in the link that alpha posted, only not nearly as well :D