Holiday avatars

[DrSpike]

Just get a hat and beard for your current avatar.

[CapTVK]

That time of the year already!?


Well here's mine...

[lord of the mark]

The chanukah camel wishes all every joy of the season, and refrains from pointing out the Greco-Macedonian origin of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the bad guy of the chanukah story. Also reminds everyone to pronounce the initial consonant like the ch in "loch", but dont overdo it

[Straybow]

I tried to add a menorah to the load of the hannuka camel, but since I am armed only with MS Paint I can't do transparent.

[Tassadar500]

Speaking of transparent, can anyone get my avatar to be transparent?

[Apocalypse]

My avatar supports the best holiday

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Speaking of transparent, can anyone get my avatar to be transparent?

It's not?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
It's not?

It is?

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Speaking of transparent, can anyone get my avatar to be transparent?

The quality is very bad and it would probably not look very good. If you have photoshop and the original:
You'd have to cut out everything leaving only the object (everything else is transparent - convert background layer to layer 0 first). Then you have to restore the shadow: Clone the object and drag it a bit to the lower right corner. Paint it gray (not paint over the transparent area) and apply some blurring filter. Put it behind the other.
Resize the image to fit as avatar and in "File>Save for web", choose gif and make sure transparent is ticked.

[Hueij]

make sure transparent is ticked

Almost... Make sure the transparent colour is the same as the background colour you are using your image on, otherwise the effect can be quite nasty...

Or just say "**** you IE" and use PNG's with alpha channels. If people are too lazy/stupid to use a decent browser it's their problem...

Although I don't know if you can use PNG's on Apolyton.

[Atahualpa]

Umm I think Photoshop (7) makes transparent automatically when you have an object on transparent background or no background (and have the object just floating in it's layer surrounded by transparent areas, damn what's the english word for this)

[Atahualpa]

transparency test

see, all I did was convert background layer to layer 0, cut out all the white (using the magic wand). Then parts of the image have no color and photoshop interprets these as transparent if you choose transparent when saving it as gif in the save for web dialog

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
transparency test

see, all I did was convert background layer to layer 0, cut out all the white (using the magic wand). Then parts of the image have no color and photoshop interprets these as transparent if you choose transparent when saving it as gif in the save for web dialog

If that's true in PS7, then I didn't know that Too bad I almost only use Fireworks nowadays for graphics

But how does your image look on a black background?

[Hueij]

I tried your image myself. Here is how it looks:

[Urban Ranger]

Still got some stray pixels left behind. That's the hard part.