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darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-12 02:52am

Nope. There's no other common (read most people will see it correctly in their browser of choice) format that supports transparency and has a small filesize. Though he could use JPG or something with the pansy method of using the same background color as the board.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-12-12 03:02am

darthdavid wrote:Nope. There's no other common (read most people will see it correctly in their browser of choice) format that supports transparency and has a small filesize. Though he could use JPG or something with the pansy method of using the same background color as the board.

And that would suck since those who like to have another style for the forum, see this dark blue background on the avatar... hehe.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2004-12-12 03:49am

I was under the impression that for the major browsers, only IE had trouble with PNG with 8-bit transparencies, not regular binary-type. (Confirmed when I decided to view this thread in IE. There's both an example of PNG-24 color/8 bit trans in darthdavid's post and PNG 8-bit/binary transparency in mine. The 32-bit pic in IE was the only problem, viewing from Opera, Firefox, and IE.)

Marksist · Post by **Marksist** » 2004-12-12 03:08pm

I appreciate the help everyone has given me so far with this. For now, I'm using the one Tsyroc made until I can get mine below 6KB trying the methods everyone suggested. I tryed GIF, but, it makes me "export" it when I save it with GIMP, and it loses the background transparency for some reason when I do that.

EDIT: Nevermind, I finally figured it out! Success! Thanks a lot for introducing me to this software, and all the tips and suggestions from everyone, was very helpful. Going to try this with my sig next.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-12-12 03:31pm

I quite like Gimp. Use it almost daily for just little things here and there. I am pretty sure david and I could help you out in case you run into some problems somehwere down the track.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-12-12 07:36pm

darthdavid wrote:Nope. There's no other common (read most people will see it correctly in their browser of choice) format that supports transparency and has a small filesize. Though he could use JPG or something with the pansy method of using the same background color as the board.

Actually, the TIFF file format supports 8-bit alpha channels with JPEG compression, if I remember correctly. But I've never tried viewing such a TIFF in a web browser, nor do I think that the board supports TIFF for avatars anyway.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-12-12 11:26pm

Durandal wrote:Actually, the TIFF file format supports 8-bit alpha channels with JPEG compression, if I remember correctly. But I've never tried viewing such a TIFF in a web browser, nor do I think that the board supports TIFF for avatars anyway.

TIFFs are pretty big, though.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-12-13 01:51am

My browser has no problem with tiffs, mind you, I use Konqueor - something most of you (apart from david) have probably never heard of...

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-13 03:53am

Actually a fair portion of this board uses linux so atleast a few have probably heard of Konqueror if in no other way then by browsing their heard drive on kde.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-12-13 03:56am

darthdavid wrote:Actually a fair portion of this board uses linux so atleast a few have probably heard of Konqueror if in no other way then by browsing their heard drive on kde.

New to me. Cool. Know any usernames?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-13 04:10am

Not at 4 in the morning, no.

I'll take the fact that I can't remember the names of those whome I've corresponded with numerous times about various linux problems/general computer isssues/whatevar as a que for sleep. So that in mind, i bid you all adieu.