Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> It's a question I would have thought the manual would help me with, but
> it seems not.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to make a (currently white) area around the
> outside of an image into a transparent region using Graphic Converter?

Although not a user of graphic converter, assuming it works in a
similarish way to other things, you can only change an area to
transparent if you want to make a gif, which I assume you don't if you
are making an icon.
the other way is to copy the part that isn't white and paste it into a
new transparency.

> (I'm trying to make an HP32E icon for the 32E emulator from here
> <http://www.bartosiak.org/nonpareil/index.html>
- scanned in my
> calculator, cropped in close, but I'm left with a bit of a border
> because the sides are curved and I'd like it transparent)
> 
> And while I'm at it: what's the approved method of applying a custom
> icon as a one-off in OS X?

Copy and paste into the Get Info. I did it yesterday so I know it works
ok (this was 10.5, but I remember it always working).

> I tried the obvious `Get Info' and then found I could paste my prototype
> image in if I selected the icon in the top left - but although I gave it
> a 128x67 pixel image, what I got ended up much lower resolution than
> that and it's all blurry.

What said 128x67?
Icons should be 128x128 32 bit argb (or is it rgba)? 
I use the icon tool, paste it into that and save it as a graphic.
I am not sure if icon composer is a normal thing or gets installed with
the developer tools. I think it is. You can do it in photoshop so I am
sure you can do it in graphic converter

> Thing is, that's what Mac Help appears to tell me to do.

Ahh.. never read that!


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