Invisible Background

[Wendy Dally]

Hi, I'm a brand new user of Corel 8 and want to make the background of my
new (irregular shaped) graphic transparent. If I export it as a jpeg to my
web page which has a coloured background, I can see a white rectangle around
the graphic. I have looked through all the available help and been
unsuccessful in finding the answer, including changing the format used to
save. Can anyone help me?
Regards,
Wendy

[Wendy Dally]

I have checked this and no border has been applied to the graphic via the
web page. Any other ideas please. :-)

Wendy

"Marko Jotic" <mm...@ibm.net> wrote in message
news:39D0D93E...@ibm.net...
> Wendy,
>
> I sounds as if you allowed a border around the graphic in the web page.
>
> Marko
>

[Dirk Michaelsen]

Hi,

>I have checked this and no border has been applied to the graphic via the
>web page. Any other ideas please. :-)

don't export the graphic as .jpg but as .gif! Then you can choose one
color in your picture to be transparent!

Greetings Dirk...
--
Dirk Michaelsen, Hamburg, Germany
dirk.mi...@t-online.de

[Marko Jotic]

I think I get it now, not a white border, your graphic is within a white
rectangle.

jpegs do not allow transparancies, you have two choices:
1) If jpeg required for quality (sometimes 256 colour gifs give better
results), change the white background to the same rgb colour of your web
page (add a rectangle behind it). Note that after you convert this,
Draw8 will leave some artifacts at the edges. So the best procedure is
to make sure its larger than you need, convert it to .cpt, in photopaint
crop off the edges, and save that as jpeg.
2) make a gif instead, which allows one transparent colour.

Marko

[Pashn8Flwr]

you must use gif instead of jpg to make the background transparent when you go
to save it there is a choice as to whether and which color in the photo you
want to be invisible...