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From: Fuga.Mas on 17 Apr 2008 15:55
Please forgive my not knowing the proper jargon - total newbie I am.

I have a simple graphic of an animal (clip-art-ish kind of thing). The
background is white so unless I paste the thing onto white paper I get a white
background on top of the overall background color. I suspect the Magic Wand
Tool is what I want but beyond that I'm unsure what to do. Presently my Help
menu is MIA. Image is a .GIF file.

Thank you for any consideration,


From: Linda Rathgeber on 17 Apr 2008 20:20
Fuga.Mas wrote:
> Please forgive my not knowing the proper jargon - total newbie I am.
>
> I have a simple graphic of an animal (clip-art-ish kind of thing). The
> background is white so unless I paste the thing onto white paper I get a white
> background on top of the overall background color. I suspect the Magic Wand
> Tool is what I want but beyond that I'm unsure what to do. Presently my Help
> menu is MIA. Image is a .GIF file.

Here are a couple of methods to try

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/images/photo_magic/selections_pentool.htm
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/images/photo_magic/selections_knockout.htm

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From: pixlor on 19 Apr 2008 00:39
In Fireworks, your bitmap graphic sits on top of the canvas. The first thing
you want to do is make the canvas transparent. Go to
Modify > Canvas > Canvas Color...
and select Transparent

Now you can start selecting pixels of your image's background with the Magic
Wand tool and then deleting them (just press the Del key). When you do, you
should see a grey and white checkerboard pattern start to come show. This is
your transparent canvas. Everywhere you see this, your image is transparent.
(If it's difficult to see, you can always set your canvas to some contrasting
color, like hot pink, temporarily. Modify > Canvas > Canvas Color..., select
the color square under Custom and pick something...different. Make sure you
change back to transparent for the next step, though.)

When you save the image, you save a Fireworks .png file, which contains some
proprietary information. To use the image on a Web page, you want to export. Go
to
File > Image Preview
To export a transparent .gif, select .GIF from the Format drop-down box. Below
the colors, select "Alpha Transparency" and then you can export.

From: Fuga.Mas on 19 Apr 2008 09:42
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Well written and informed directions.

Very much appreciated all around.
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