HollyMouse
Technical User
Hello, I have been using PSP since version 5 came out. I have 8 now. Everything was FINE until about 7 days ago, I could no longer make transparent images.
I make a lot of blog buttons and badges that have a little graphic in them and the surrounding area is transparent so that the webpage background can come thru. I also make images so that ppl can open them and export them to make their own Picture Tube, and the area around my graphic is of course left transparent.
I make these images as a crafter, for other crafters. I don't sell them, it's a labor of love. I used to work as a graphic artist back in the days of "Aldus PageMaker 1.0." Ha ha I'm older than dirt.
THE PROBLEM: All of a sudden, starting a week ago, I save my work as a .png or sometimes a .gif, BUT when I call them up again -- ALL TRANSPARENT PARTS ARE NOW WHITE. WTF??? I have tried to then change the background color to a weird color not in the main graphic, and "set" it to be transparent. I never had to do that before, and it doesn't work, now the graphics all have weird colored backgrounds and are NOT transparent.
I uninstalled and then reinstalled PSP 8, but to no avail. I put in my old version 7 but same thing. I put 8 back and it's still screwy.
Anyone know what I have done wrong? I am attaching one of the files from BEFORE it started getting crazy (or before I went crazy). Just so ppl can see it really was working to hold those trans areas. Now I try to duplicate such a graphic and it's all WHITE around her head. ARGH.
I make a lot of blog buttons and badges that have a little graphic in them and the surrounding area is transparent so that the webpage background can come thru. I also make images so that ppl can open them and export them to make their own Picture Tube, and the area around my graphic is of course left transparent.
I make these images as a crafter, for other crafters. I don't sell them, it's a labor of love. I used to work as a graphic artist back in the days of "Aldus PageMaker 1.0." Ha ha I'm older than dirt.
THE PROBLEM: All of a sudden, starting a week ago, I save my work as a .png or sometimes a .gif, BUT when I call them up again -- ALL TRANSPARENT PARTS ARE NOW WHITE. WTF??? I have tried to then change the background color to a weird color not in the main graphic, and "set" it to be transparent. I never had to do that before, and it doesn't work, now the graphics all have weird colored backgrounds and are NOT transparent.
I uninstalled and then reinstalled PSP 8, but to no avail. I put in my old version 7 but same thing. I put 8 back and it's still screwy.
Anyone know what I have done wrong? I am attaching one of the files from BEFORE it started getting crazy (or before I went crazy). Just so ppl can see it really was working to hold those trans areas. Now I try to duplicate such a graphic and it's all WHITE around her head. ARGH.