Help Removing White Background from Logo Created in Publisher 200

[pubilshing gal]

*Posting to this Page because I believe this is more of a General Question*
Hi I run a small website and am sorta OK/Good with Publisher but still
Amatuer on more advanced things. I have no advertising buget so primarily
make all my own marketing materials myself in publisher or word.
I need help removing the white background from a logo I created in Microsoft
Publisher 2007. Whenver I go to post the current logo file saved as a JPEG
onto a website the logo shows up along with the white background. How do I
remove this white background from the file so that wherever i post it you
only see the desired logo image.
I tried to save only the image as a photo by clicking the "CTRL" button and
clicking on the the two objects that make up the logo and then clicking save
as a photot. But it saved the picture as a PNG file. Then when I went to
upload it to the webpage instead of a white background it had a Black
Background. What am I doing wrong?
Please help

I posted a similar question a while back and got a helpful response from Rob
Giordano
"you need to save ONLY the logo object(s) as a jpg not the entire page.
and any time you resize it you should be holding Shift key and grabbin a
corner handle to keep the aspect ratio the same.

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression"

Rob or anyone else with experience in the issuse please help me correct this
problem. Thanks

[Engineer@pnb.retired_1987 Don Schmidt]

Here is one way of doing it:

Using the program InfanView open the logo image file and then save it as a
gif, jpg or png but note the Save options box that will open to the right of
the work area. Check the transparent color box and the sub choice, "Choose
transparent color during saving". Click Save and choose the white area with
the mouse pointer. The white area should now be transparent.

You can get InfanView version 4.25 at

http://www.irfanview.com/

--
Don - Publisher 2000�
Vancouver, USA

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[pubilshing gal]

Ok Thank you Don Schmidt, Ill look this up and try it. Best

[John Inzer]

pubilshing gal wrote:
> *Posting to this Page because I believe this is more of a General
> Question* Hi I run a small website and am sorta OK/Good with
> Publisher but still Amatuer on more advanced things. I have no
> advertising buget so primarily make all my own marketing materials
> myself in publisher or word.
> I need help removing the white background from a logo I created in
> Microsoft Publisher 2007. Whenver I go to post the current logo file
> saved as a JPEG onto a website the logo shows up along with the white
> background. How do I remove this white background from the file so
> that wherever i post it you only see the desired logo image.
> I tried to save only the image as a photo by clicking the "CTRL"
> button and clicking on the the two objects that make up the logo and
> then clicking save as a photot. But it saved the picture as a PNG
> file. Then when I went to upload it to the webpage instead of a white
> background it had a Black Background. What am I doing wrong?
> Please help
>
> I posted a similar question a while back and got a helpful response
> from Rob Giordano
> "you need to save ONLY the logo object(s) as a jpg not the entire
> page.
> and any time you resize it you should be holding Shift key and
> grabbin a corner handle to keep the aspect ratio the same.

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Re-open the logo in Publisher.

Left click (highlight) the logo and on
the Picture Toolbar left click the "Set
Transparent Color" button.

Now left click the White background
of your logo.

Now...right click the logo and choose...
Save As Picture / choose...png.

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

[pubilshing gal]

HI Don, I tried it and it worked. While Im not quite sure how it happened, it
did work. After I changed the file from JPEG to GIFF. I thank you for the
suggestion. And oh now I have anew program I have to learn and look more
into. But for now it actually worked.
Still I would like to know is it possible to save a file in Publisher
without the white background on it or Black background on it and post it
without having to do the coversion?
Or is the Conversion the Key to making it work correctly?
Also should I not be saving files as JPEGs?
let me know,

[pubilshing gal]

thanks John, yep I've done these steps before, and Ill retry it again. But
what I found out was these steps work while the file is inside of Publisher,
but once I pulled the file into another areana say in my case a website, then
I run into trouble.
Ill keep playing around with it though. perhaps Im not saving it correctly.
So thanks for simplifying the steps. Ill do it again.

[John Inzer]

pubilshing gal wrote:
> thanks John, yep I've done these steps before, and Ill retry it
> again. But what I found out was these steps work while the file is
> inside of Publisher, but once I pulled the file into another areana
> say in my case a website, then I run into trouble.
> Ill keep playing around with it though. perhaps Im not saving it
> correctly. So thanks for simplifying the steps. Ill do it again.

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Yes...it can be tricky and maybe I didn't explain it correctly.

The main thing is that you found a method that works for you.
IrfanView is a great program...I recommend it highly.

[pubilshing gal]

Hey Don Schmidt, Question on Infranview, I used these steps to take the white
border off of a version 2 of the logo created in Publisher but this time it
didn't work. I saved the file as a GIF while in Publisher. Then I opened the
file with INfranview and clicked Save As, then I choose GIFF and followed the
steps you said. And clicked the white area during saving and nothing
happened. Can you help or maybe explain if i'm missing any steps? thanks,