Transparency issues in Photoshop CS

[Kelly Brownlee]

Okay, here's the deal, I am in the middle of making some photograph jpgs have a transparent background. Simple enough, right? I have been creating a new file, selecting the 'transparent background' option when naming the file, and selecting the image from the jpg photo and pasting the image into the blank file with the transparent background.

but it's not showing as a transparent background to the people on the other end I am sending it to. what am I doing wrong?

[D-Frag]

Well your first problem is your using .jpgs, when you save them they automatically flatten, which will give you a white background. Secondly, unless the person on the other end is using photoshop, they are only going to see a white background. Try and elaborate more on what your actually trying to accomplish and we can help you out more. Why does the person need it to be transparent, and what is the final product?

[Kelly Brownlee]

ahhhh...that makes sense...
okay, the person on the other end is using photoshop. she is giving me pictures of monitors, screws, and keyboards. She needs me to make the backgrounds on these images transparent so she can paste the picture of a monitor on a gray background and have the gray be in the background, and not the white surrounding it. make sense?
so, basically, cutting out the image and saving it on a transparent background so she can paste the image of the computer on any color background and just have the image of the computer show, not the white box around it.

she needs the files to be jpgs. any way to do this?

[Kool]

JPEG does not support transparent backgrounds. Sorry. I believe GIF is the only raster format that does. Why can't you just send her the PSD files if she is using PhotoShop? Then she can assemble her final images with transparencies.



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[D-Frag]

Actually if your using any version I believe .tiffs and .psd's are able to send with transparent backgrounds. Sounds like the person on the other end needs a lesson on how to crop images quickly.

Anyways, if you just do it in a .tif or .psd and send it to her that way it will work, remember not to flatten it, and she will have to put it together on her end and THEN save as a .jpg. Hope that helps.

[Kelly Brownlee]

Thanks Kool and D-Frag!!!!!

[Ryan8720]

If it is for the Web you can use GIF or PNG-8.



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[casedsgn]

PNG sounds like the way to go.
Smaller file size to email than a .tif or a .psd

[Ryan8720]

You just have to be careful that you save it correctly, or else IE won't recognize the transparency. Damn MS!



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