Comments on: I Went a Little Monitor Crazy This Week http://www.jasondunn.com/dell-2407fpw-crazy-68 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason Dunn http://www.jasondunn.com/dell-2407fpw-crazy-68/comment-page-1#comment-70 Jason Dunn Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:25:51 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/dell-2407fpw-crazy-68#comment-70 Yes yes, I know what transparency is for - but I wasn't sure the monitor would look good as a GIF, and PNG files tend to be huge. Because this image was a fairly harshly compressed JPEG, there was a lot of white JPEG artifacts, so my first attempt at a GIF transparency looked horrible - I picked pure white as the transparent colour, but there were many off-white pixels (due to the artifacting) that didn't vanish. The PNG transparency didn't work at all - I think my aged PhotoImpact 10 wasn't creating them properly. I ended up sampling the red and colouring over the white, THEN making the transparency...what a hassle! And this blog was supposed to be nothing but fun for me. ;-) Yes yes, I know what transparency is for – but I wasn’t sure the monitor would look good as a GIF, and PNG files tend to be huge. Because this image was a fairly harshly compressed JPEG, there was a lot of white JPEG artifacts, so my first attempt at a GIF transparency looked horrible – I picked pure white as the transparent colour, but there were many off-white pixels (due to the artifacting) that didn’t vanish. The PNG transparency didn’t work at all – I think my aged PhotoImpact 10 wasn’t creating them properly. I ended up sampling the red and colouring over the white, THEN making the transparency…what a hassle! And this blog was supposed to be nothing but fun for me. ;-)

]]> By: Janak Parekh http://www.jasondunn.com/dell-2407fpw-crazy-68/comment-page-1#comment-69 Janak Parekh Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:45:55 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/dell-2407fpw-crazy-68#comment-69 Jason - this is what GIF/PNG transparency is for. Grab that magic wand, make the mask, and bingo! Although... a monitor on a red background might be rather ugly. How about partial transparency? That should look pretty sweet. :) --janak Jason – this is what GIF/PNG transparency is for. Grab that magic wand, make the mask, and bingo!

Although… a monitor on a red background might be rather ugly. How about partial transparency? That should look pretty sweet. :)

–janak

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