InfinityFox Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 I was trying to decide where to post this because it is both theme and media related and I decided on here. I absolutely love the latest theme by CriticalCid and have no problems with it, but came across and issue that I'm having problems dealing with. There maybe an easy fix or not I just don't know, but I'm hoping you guys can help out. Anyway, I've just imported some spectrum roms and had grabbed a rather nice collection of clear logos from the Hyperspin ftp for the games I had imported and unfortunately a number of then are in black writing and with the green background used in the theme, you can barely see the logos. I thought it was just a question of opening up the basic paint program in windows and changing the logo by using the fill function. Doing so however seems to change the text but the clear logo is not a clear logo anymore, so I get a big white rectangle around the altered text. I really like the theme as it is with the green swirling and fading background and don't really want to get rid of it if it is possible. I guess there are two things that could rectify this, one being a correctly edited image that has a brighter colour and a transparent background or if the scroll area where the logos pass through is not transparent. The later I'd imagine would take a bit more work and if I'm honest I kinda like the transparency. Can anyone give me some help/suggestions on how best to sort this... Thank guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizzar721 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Coming from someone where photoshop is beyond me, I use paint.net It's very simple to edit and save as .png (anything transparent will have a grey & white checkered background) Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 This is really strange then, because when I view these logos in explorer they do not have a checkered background? Just a white background with the black artwork, and when viewed in Launchbox just the black writing is visible, however as I mentioned above, change the colour of the black text and a white border appears. I'll post some images so you can see what I mean, and will checkout paint.net tomorrow. Thanks Bizzar721 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.K.O. Cinematics Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 A checkered background indicates transparency. It sounds like what you are doing is editing your logos, then saving "without" a transparent background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.K.O. Cinematics Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I'm not too familiar with paint.net, but with photoshop...Sometimes when you import an image - The layer will be called "Background" and create a solid background. I'm thinking something like that is happening when you are importing to paint.net. Check out how to change your "layer style" and that's probably the ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Microsoft Paint doesn't support any transparency and will always turn any transparent background into a white one. Like some users already suggested you'll have to use another tool like Paint.NET, Gimp or Photoshop for it. Also make sure to always save/export your images as .PNG files because .JPEG doesn't support transparency either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.K.O. Cinematics Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, CriticalCid said: Microsoft Paint doesn't support any transparency and will always turn any transparent background into a white one. Like some users already suggested you'll have to use another tool like Paint.NET, Gimp or Photoshop for it. Also make sure to always save/export your images as .PNG files because .JPEG doesn't support transparency either. Or that to, lol God, I feel so dumb. I gotta hand it to you @CriticalCid ... At least you pay attention to what you read. Unfortunately I'm a speed reading freak. He establishes using PAINT in the first paragraph... UGH! Listen to what Cid said! Edited December 6, 2016 by BakerMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfinityFox Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 Oops forgot to thank you guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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