ok so i am using adobe photoshop 7.0 and i am try my absolute hardest to have a transparent image. the problem isnt the transparent background, it is actually the colored part itself. i need the colors to be transparent. if this isnt possible could someone please explain how to have a gradient going inwards from a rounded square thing. i want it to go from red to white going inwards, but i cant figure that out...lol. any help in eithe rtopic would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

hmmm ok, I'm not too sure what you're talking about... but i'll take a stab at it. >:

do you mean, you want the image to be semi-transparent? If so, then you could just use an alpha filter. Like this:


<img src="picture.gif" style="filter:Alpha(opacity=n);" />

n is a number 1-100, depending on how transparent you want it to be.

<a href="http://www.developer.be/index.cfm/fuseaction/tutorialDetail/GroupID/184/tutorialName/profile.htm" target=_blank>this</a> website has a tutorial on the filters.

About the gradient, I'm not sure if its the same cause I use PS 6.0.

1)Look at the tool panel where it shows the color of your foreground and background. Set white as your foreground and red as your background.

2)On the toolbar at the top make sure that the radial shaped gradient tool is selected.

3)Ok, then look at the 2 tools below the foreground background tool,click the one on the left. Now click the center of the image, then the edge of your image.

Uh.. if i got the 'red to white' gradient backwards, just swap the foreground and background and try again.

All done >:)

I hope that helps.

wow soeone actually replied to me. umm this is example of what i am looking for for the gradient thing.

http://www.dbvortex.com

obviously you have to enter the site. the reson for the enter page i dont know but oh well. now umm. take that whole site and make it transparent... see what i am saying? i am nos tstealing the layout, but that is jsut an example of what i want kind of. i knwo the alpha transparency woudl work, but now i have the problem of getting the background of my tables opaque as well...lol. thanks for the help by the way.

hmm .. ok so the red and white gradient thingy was for those boxes like in the layout in the link you have me right?

try this link:

http://www.lissaexplains.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38486&highlight=transparent+table

if the link doesn't work, just search the forum for

transparent table

and you should be able to find it .

i'm not sure if you actually mean "transparent" tables or "translucent" tables but tables are allready transparent from themselfs when you leave the bgcolor tag out of it

Love,
Mirna

ok so i can get teh images of the table translucent. but is there a way to counter act it so that i can have the background translucent and the text jsut reguler? i tried usig divs and the font tag already. and i refuse to use iframes, so dont even suggest them.

Hmm I'm not too sure about it cause I've never actually tried it ...

search the forum for 'translucent table' ?

I did that just now, there seems to be alot of varied answers :p

btw, your background of the table.. is an image right? not a color...>: hmmm most of the solutions said something about replacing background colour of table... so don't think that's going to work.

I'll go search somemore and be back later :p

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table translucent:

<table style="filter: alpha(opacity=50)">

image translucent:

<img style="filter: alpha(opacity=50)" src="imageurl.gif">

background of table translucent:

same way as table translucent. There is no way to get the background only translucent, only with a graphic program.

and please be a little nicer on the forum. People are trying to help you, they do this for fun. be glad that they even take the time to read this.

Love,
Mirna