Robert: I run a file each time I make a new one, so no batching yet. One thing I haven’t been able to do is keep the image name (I have to make a new image it seems, unlike imageMagick).
I can also say run everything in folder x who is *.png as well… I’m only doing -rem sRGB as well since that’s all I need.
The problem to take the div´s background color to the background color for the logo is for me that the colors don´t match.
Whatever colour you’ve set on the div in the background, you put that colour into Gimp. So if the bg colour of your div was #ecd54g (I just made that up), then you set that as the bg colour of your logo. If the background is actually an image (a gradient for example), then you copy the image and put THAT as the background.
If they don’t match when you view in the browser, it’s because you’re using either Fire Fux or Safari on a non-Apple monitor. Yesh, Mozilla has decided to make our lives more difficult because they’re evil. I hateses the Mozillas.
you see, I had to run everything through PNGcrush to fix it, and I know web devs who haven’t bothered and just put a warning on their sites “warning you’re using a crappy browser”.
Took a look at this page and have got it what I should do to, but not how to do it (in Gimp or in PS).
I don’t either, Fireworks is some wholly different tool. When he talks about fill and border, sounds like he means a vector, even though it’s making a png (which is raster).
Which is why I try very very hard to avoid transparency at all on the web, and when I do have it, I leave IE6 looking bad because people are using an old browser and I’m not willing to load a bunch of junky scripts for them.
Where can I read more about how to use Gimp (easy tutorial ;))?
Is the layer always “active”?
I am having trouble with for example to :
get such “help lines” from the ruler like you can do in Photoshop? So I can place the text or image where I want and can “see” where others should be"…
Change size of the font
cut out the text or image that I want to save if it´s bigger than the actual size I´ve put for the layer…?
Okey, I still have the image showing its background color (white by default) when I do as Jolie explains it. I just would want to know what am I doing wrong… =o/
As I see it I got it right when I use the “indexed-system”. Yeah, finally!! ;o)
Yes, the logo is jaggeddy. It’s been indexed: someone set the number of colours, which means your pixel will always either be completely coloured (because you set the number of colours to “1”, which was black), or completely transparent. To have a transparent background AND keep the letters fuzzy, you’d need to have some half-way transparency (semi-transparency) which cannot be done on indexed images (except in Fireworks).
As I said earlier, you have two choices:
you either need to make the letters as an image WITH anti-aliasing and do NOT index the colours (let the image remain in RGB mode). This type of image is what does not work in IE6 (IE6 will show whatever background colour you have in your settings when you saved the file) and it’s a rather large file size for what you’re getting
or
Know in advance the background or background colour that will sit behind the design, and put that as your background colour before typing your text. This way, the text can “fuzz” into that background colour. This option has NO transparency involved, meaning you get a smaller filesize than the option above which requires alpha transparency. I like this option better because it works in IE6, looks just as nice, and has smaller filesize. After having the text merged down to the background colour, you can, if you want, index this file. The pixels will already be a solid colour per pixel so the text will still look soft even if you set a certain number of colours.
Did you finally make a “batch file” for PNGcrush to remove the chunks and is it efficient? Well, you know what I do anyway, I just PNGOUT but you cannot on your Distro.