Simple Question

Simple Question inserting text without a white background

#1 q28

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 04:57 AM

i have a simple question because im su*k at painting, image stuff etc whatever! i just want to create my first and last logo for some website! here's the prob, i downloaded a image and want to put my name inside the image, but everytime im puttin a text, i can;t get rid of the plain white that surrounds my name! (hope you get what i mean) in other words i want to have my name inside the image without affecting the original image! how can i do that? tnx

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 05:27 AM

You didn't say what software you're using but what you probably need to do is right click on the text box and select properties. In there somewhere there will be an option to set the background of the text box to transparent.

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 05:38 AM

i forgot, im using MS Paint, i tried that but there's no text properties..

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 05:49 AM

See this link.

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 06:07 AM

cool! tnx! anyway last question man,the original format of my image is JPEG but i have to convert it to GIF but after i converted the image, the resolution becomes poor (lot of boxes), how can i make get rid of the boxes thing? so it will become close to it's orignal quality? tnx

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 06:18 AM

Not exactly sure what you mean by "lot of boxes", but the loss of quality is inherent in using GIF files because of the 256 colour limit.

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The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.

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