[greenboy12]

i am exploding , I have an image , I have have taken . Its a black bag on a white background.

I have managed to transparent colour with a tolerance of 45.

This changes the background which I want to loose to grey and white check squares.

I want to jeep the image of the bag in JPEG format but want the bag only with a transparent background.

I cant loose the grey and white check squares !!!!!


help please, I am grey but not bald yet.

thanks

[slipe]

Try doing a low quality plain paper print. My guess is that the squares are the standard image editor’s indication of transparency and aren’t actually part of the image.

[greenboy12]

hi, thanks for your reply. I actually want use the picture on my website, and so dont actually want to print the image.

[buck52]

need to save as .gif .png or some other format that supports transparency...jpg/jpeg does not

[slipe]

Originally Posted by greenboy12

hi, thanks for your reply. I actually want use the picture on my website, and so dont actually want to print the image.

The squares aren’t part of the image! They are generated by the editor to show you there is a transparency. It doesn’t actually matter whether you actually want to print or actually want to post or actually want to email or actually…….whatever. The squares stay with the image editor and don’t transfer.

Think of them as a cursor. If you want to print a page you don’t have to worry about where the cursor symbol is because the cursor symbol isn’t part of the document and doesn’t print. It is just something generated by the program so you know where the cursor is. “But I actually don’t want to print the document but actually want to put it on the web” you say. It doesn’t matter – the cursor symbol doesn’t go with the document no matter where you use it. It isn’t part of the document just as the squares aren’t part of the image.

That is true for all file formats. If you are using transparency and don’t know what the squares are you should pay attention to buck52’s point. If you don’t use GIF or PNG you will not have the squares but they will be filled with the background color rather than transparent.