Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Woody <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

I dunno - I recall icons with transparent (missing, more like) bits
under < OS X, so why can't I have 'em with OS X?

> the other way is to copy the part that isn't white and paste it into a
> new transparency.

Okay, I need to learn what that means.  I've STFW and got horribly
confused.  Anyone got a pointer to a site I could read that'd teach me
what I need to know to understand this?

> > (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).

It worked, but not okay - as I related.

> > 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?

Nothing, but I was working on the idea that the OS could sort it out if
the image it was given wasn't square.  Was that wrong of me?

> Icons should be 128x128 32 bit argb (or is it rgba)? 

Dunno what that means at all.

> I use the icon tool, paste it into that and save it as a graphic.

Umm.  `The icon tool'?

> I am not sure if icon composer is a normal thing or gets installed with
> the developer tools. I think it is.

You think it is what?  I don't have anything on my boot volume called
icon composer.

> You can do it in photoshop so I am
> sure you can do it in graphic converter

I'm confused.  You seem to be telling me to use some special tool called
icon tool or icon composer (which I don't have) and also Photoshop or
Graphic Converter.

Could you elucidate?

> > Thing is, that's what Mac Help appears to tell me to do.
> 
> Ahh.. never read that!

<shrug>  What else can one do?

Rowland.


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