beginners question - transparent background.

[rogdawg]

I have an old version of Illustrator (10), and I am attempting to do a very simple thing for a website (I am not a graphics person). I just want to create some text with drop shadows and a transparent background. I have no problem getting a nice font, setting the color of the text and creating the drop shadow but, I cannot figure out how to make the background transparent so that, when I export the image as a .jpg, and put it in my website's header, the color of the header (which has a gradient) shows through.

Can someone help me with this beginner's question?

thank you.

 

[jconingham]

You can't have transparency in a .jpg file. You should use either .gif or .png for this task - .png is the best (24 bit, not 8 bit) since you are working with shadows but you'll have to use a javascript hack (

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/)

in order to make the transparency work properly on IE 5.5 and 6.

 

[rogdawg]

Thank you for your response.

It doesn't appear that Illustrator v.10 supports exporting to gif or png, or "Save As" to either of those formats so, I guess I will have to find a different tool to use.

I will also check out the link for the javascript hack. That you provided.

Thanks so much for this valuable information.

 

[jconingham]

Use "Save for Web" instead of "Save As" and you should be able to select those formats.

 

[rogdawg]

Ah yes! That's it.

Thanks so much!

I am in business now.