Pen and paper characters...

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:57 pm

I have drawn a knight on paper and i have scanned it in and cut it out in MS paint into seperate layer parts.
When i imported the seperate parts into Moho, there are squares of white surrounding each image.
How can i stop this from happening?

Thanx

CrAzY Dan

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:59 pm

I'm not sure that you can do it in MS paint. You need to be able to cut it out, then save it as a PNG with the areas outside the body defined as transparent. If you don't have other software you may look into GIMP and ask someone here how to save your image as a PNG with transparency in that program.

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:15 pm

Yeah, if you use gimp, I can help you with using it to save as PNG with transparency.

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:11 am

Okay then Thanx.

How do i do it? I have got Gimp now.

Thanx again

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:34 pm

Here is what I would do:

Using the magic wand tool (Z), select the area outside of your cartoon. It should select all of the white areas. Then, invert the selection, to choose your cartoon (control-I). Copy this to the clipboard (control-C). Create a new canvas (control-N). Make sure that this has transparency/alpha enabled!! This is the secret. Then, in the new canvas, paste in your cartoon (control-V). You should see your cartoon in the middle, with a checkerboard around it, indicating the transparent sections. Save this file as a PNG file, and it will import into moho without your border.

Let me know if you need more detail on this.

jorgy

Nichod · Post by **Nichod** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:36 pm

Personally I'd use a simple prog called photofiltre. It have a function that makes a specific color transparent.

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:41 pm

How do i check if i have transparency/alpha channels enabled?

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:57 pm

When you create your new image, click on "advanced" and then there is a label "Fill with". Make sure that this says "transparency". Hope this helps.

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:04 pm

Thanx alot, Jorgy!

mr. blaaa · Post by **mr. blaaa** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:20 am

yes.
best would be paint shop (alpha channel). but u can download GIMP for free and keep it running for free. it has all basic features paintshop has.

thanks to the GNU-License u dont need to spend a lot of money to slove your alpha-channel-problem.