Dynamo
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Banks
21 Feb 2010, 9:46 am
[Pro] opacity background / graphic
I’m trying to make transparent buttons (25% black opacity) directly on my main background but in the preview nothing is transparent, if I import the same background as a graphic item and make a 25% black opacity button it works in the preview.Can somebody help ?
(if you need more information please ask)
marathon
21 Feb 2010, 12:51 pmOne way I found to do this is in Photoshop—make a clipping path for the item it will allow for a transparent path for the graphic you have designed. When you export the file make sure it is a tif—or tiff depending on what type of computer you are working with, hope this helps!
thatkeith
21 Feb 2010, 4:37 pmI’m trying to make transparent buttons (25% black opacity) directly on my main background but in the preview nothing is transparent
Check the output format for those graphic items. It will need to be PNG at millions of colours if you want real transparency, showing what’s underneath through it’s 25% opaque fill.
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Banks
21 Feb 2010, 5:12 pmthanks for the info, what I really want to understand is why it works on a graphic item (same used as background) but not on the background it self.why is that not the same thing ?the button I make is just another graphic item and not even a complex graphic.
thatkeith
21 Feb 2010, 5:49 pmwhy is that not the same thing ? the button I make is just another graphic item
Hard to say without seeing an example web page at least. Could you post a link somewhere? Also, are you importing your graphic as pass-through? And/or is that item not layered but the simple graphic box layered?
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Banks
25 Feb 2010, 7:44 amhi again, I’m really a beginner I would like to link what I have done but and tried with 007sites.com and 0catch.com (free web hosting sites) with no success.Publish site does nothing and Upload I must not know what info to input since I always get this message : server is not responding. What is pass-through ?It’s just a jpg :
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2641/blackwood1280x800.jpg
dragged form my desktop, and button is just a graphic item, black, 25% opacity (made directly on freeway).Everything is not layered.
Banks
25 Feb 2010, 9:23 amJust a short message to say that I found a solution (the solution even), in the third pane of the inspector palette change to png and millions of colors. Hope this can help somebody else.
