Do these tips and tricks work with PSP 4.10 shareware?

yes

How do I make a seamless background?

Posted by david

• First, make the image you want as your seamless pattern.
• Then go to create seamless pattern. open up a new image much larger than the seamless image and paste it on there.
• after that just study your image for a bit and try flipping and mirroring your original seamless pattern until they fit together.
• the image size will end up a lot bigger but hey, you got your seamless background

See Creating Backgrounds

How do I make a transparent background?

• use the dropper to pick up the background color
  
• On the color palette make the color you just picked up the background color
  
• Select FILE/SAVE AS... on the menu bar
  
• Select GIF in the SAVE AS TYPE box
  
• Select OPTIONS
  
• Select the GIF tab
  
• Select SET THE TRANSPARENCY VALUE TO THE BACKGROUND COLOR
  
• Select OK
  
• Name your file and select SAVE
  
• Open your gif in a web browser to see if it's transparent. (If you use a background that is the same color as the page, you won't be able to tell if it worked)
  

If your background was not all EXACTLY the same color, the transparency will not be perfect. You may have to go back and touch up the background by hand to get it all the same color.

How do I save a transparent background?

Make sure the bacground color in the image is the same as the background color on the color palette.

• Click File/Save As/ on the menu bar
• Select file type of .gif
• Select options box
• Check the set transparency value to the background color box
• click ok
• name your file
• click save

Posted by Ali

From a great tutorial I saw:

• When you're creating a transparent gif, you are defining a single color as transparent. The image will still be a rectangular bitmap (as the first example shows). When you define the gray background as the color that is transparent, the web browser will not display anything that has that color.
• If, for instance, the type appeared on a textured background made up of many colors, you would not be able to create a transparent background until you created a background made up of only one color.
• To create a transparent gif using Paintshop Pro, you'll need to find out the Index Number of the color you want to be transparent. Select colors/ Decrease Colors from the menu bar, and select 256 colors. Use the eyedropper tool to select the color you wish to make transparent, and at the bottom of the screen you will see a status bar. In the status bar, you'll see something like (i=10 R=255 G=210 B=210). The first number is the Index Number. Make a note of it, select File/ Save As / Gif. Select Gif89a and then select the Options dialog box. Enter your Index number where it asks for the Value of the transparency color.

Posted by Webster

• Trick is to use the fill tool to fill the background with a color (I use white).
• Then save as a GIF file, click on "Options" and check the transparent background option.
• Yes, it's okay to go to 256 colors without affecting transparency of your file.
• Display with the Browser of your choice.

My transparent image has a square border around it when I put it on the web. How do I get rid of it?

<img src="file.gif" border=0> (or file.jpg, as the case may be).

How do I get rid of spots in the transparent background?

Posted by Ali

• Make a dup of the image and close original.
• If you use your eyedropper tool to load the transarent color, then reverse it to background.
• Use a contrasting color to flood the background and you should be able to see the spots.
• Reverse the transparent back to foreground and use brush tool to remove them.
• When you're done, flood area with transparent color again,
• save and make sure that the transparency value has remained the same. If not, reset. Good luck.

How do I paste a transparent image?

Posted by Mindy
The transparent color will be whatever the selected secondary color is. When you paste it, the image where it is going will show through the transparent color.

The secondary color is the color that you see displayed in the box on the right under the color panel. If you have PSP 4 and the user manual, go to pages 105 and 106 for an explanation. The secondary color is referred to as the background color there.

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