Help with Paint Shop and Transparency

[Khaalis]

Are there any Paint Shop Pro users out there? I have a copy of PSP7 and I am having a really rough time with figuring out how to layer multiple gifs with transparent backgrounds. It works fine in something like Word or on a web page, just stack them and group them. But in PSP it appears to convert the transparent background of a giff back to a solid color when you try to stack them. Any hints would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Malessa]

Are there any Paint Shop Pro users out there? I have a copy of PSP7 and I am having a really rough time with figuring out how to layer multiple gifs with transparent backgrounds. It works fine in something like Word or on a web page, just stack them and group them. But in PSP it appears to convert the transparent background of a giff back to a solid color when you try to stack them. Any hints would be appreciated.
Thanks!

I have psp7......although, I'm not sure how to help you with your problem. But I'll give it a shot.

I do know that sometimes when you have a transparent background it will appear white/yellow when you convert. Then where ever you set it up, you play with the settings to not show that certain color...I think thats what you were refering to on word and webpage.....I could be way off...sorry.

Although if your going to keep the multiple images in psp try merging all layers cept the background. keep it x'd out, even if it is transparent, and just merge all visible. Then save copy as jpg, or gif, it may appear to have a white background, but should stand alone..Or not....but give it a try...Depending on what your trying to do with it, you can always select it out of the psp image, or... copy /paste it to another pic or place without a background.

 

[Khaalis]

I have psp7......although, I'm not sure how to help you with your problem. But I'll give it a shot.

I do know that sometimes when you have a transparent background it will appear white/yellow when you convert. Then where ever you set it up, you play with the settings to not show that certain color...I think thats what you were refering to on word and webpage.....I could be way off...sorry.

Although if your going to keep the multiple images in psp try merging all layers cept the background. keep it x'd out, even if it is transparent, and just merge all visible. Then save copy as jpg, or gif, it may appear to have a white background, but should stand alone..Or not....but give it a try...Depending on what your trying to do with it, you can always select it out of the psp image, or... copy /paste it to another pic or place without a background.

Thanks for the help. To be a little more clear, what I have is two .gifs that already have "transparent" backgrounds. However, The problems are:
1) As you noted, when I bring them into PSP they show up as having a solid color background.
2) When I open them, they are considered "Background" layers, not "Image" layers. Thus I cannot stack them one attop another by using the copy/"paste as layer".
3) I cannot use copy/"paste as transparent selection" either because when it converts the "transparent" background to a color, it creates Not a single color but a somewhat checkerboard color (ei: If you "paste as transparent selection" it comes out like a "mesh pattern" of the color it converted the background to.

I have also not figured out how to convert the gifs into a usable ".psp" format. Nothing changes when I open a file I have "save as" in .psp form when it was a .gif. I have used the flower tutorial from the site to see how it works, but I do not know how they got the original individual flower .psp's on a transparent background in the first place. It also appears that only a .psp image (like theirs, not my convertions) can be used as layered images and not backgrounds.

Granted I just got this today, but it seems pretty complex to me. Any other hints/help would be appreciated. I did manage to get individual files to show transparent backgrounds in other applications using PSP (even though they show as a color in PSP). I then used word and stacked three images, then group them, to make a single image. I will attempted to attach the converted image, but currently the site hangs when I try to attach a file.

Any hints anyone could give on how to do this in PSP it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

 

[Malessa]

Hmm....Try opening up a new canvas with transparent background. Then open up folder with the pic you want. Use the magic wand and select the pic, then copy. Paste as a new layer on new canvas......See if that helps..