Meh, im stupid please help me...
 

This is a simple question-answe thread. Because I'm still learning basic things and dont have $500 to spend (I'm only 14, this explain it?), I'm using The Gimp 2.2.8 as my image editing program. Now for the life of me I cannot find anything that tells me i can add transparency while I'm almost positive its possible. I've done it by accident before (I think). If you have The Gimp or have had experience with it, could you please tell me where this is? I'm still learning so don't confuse me >_<

Sorry bout this but I'm the only person I know in RL thats as far into image editing as i am which is about 2 hours worth of reading a manual (I don't really own a manual or anything... just an example)

Edit: sorry if i should have posted this somewhere else, just thought of that. I really didn't know where i might ask in specific so i made a thread...

1) Ctrl + K is the equivalant of Delete on Paint, but will make it transparant (Usually).

2) If you're trying to make everything but the base image transparant, pick the "Selection by Color" tool and click on the background area. Then hit Ctrl+K.

3) Similarly, if you're trying to do a sprite comic or something along those lines (And thus need to paste the sprites into the comic), but the sprites aren't on a transparant background, what you do is paste the sprite into the comic (But DON'T anchor it down!). Then just Select By Color the sprite's obscuring background and Ctrl K it. Since it's being done in (then) a floating layer, it won't affect the main image itself.

Ctrl + K is clear. When i use it on my background, it just makes a white fade onto my image. =/ Either im doing somethign wrong or The Gimp is just different =p

To add transparency in the Gimp, go to Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel. Then, when you Ctrl+K away the background, you'll have a nice, gray checkerboard behind the image telling you that it's transparent.

=) Thanks a bunch. Guess i never really accidentaly made it transparent... thats kind of a hard accident... lol---Clear still made that kind of fading effect on the picture, so after Add Alpha Channel I just moved the background out. I haven't saved it due to the question below, so i was wondering if this stays.

Now i have another question, what kind of file supports tansparency, and out of those, which is most usable? =p

.gif and .png will save an alpha channel. JPEGs, .bmps, .tifs, and a lot of other things won't. So save it as a .gif or a .png. As to which is most useable, just save each image as a .png, a .gif, and as an indexed .png. Whichever one is smallest in filesize and retains fidelity to the original image is the one you want. Normally, the indexed .png will be smallest, but not always.

Meh, I'm stupid...
I don't like bringing an old thread back up =/
Is it possible to host transparency on imageshack/photobucket/tinypic/anywhere? It alwasy turns out grey.

Is it because the background of the site is grey, because you shouldn't have any trouble with hosting transparent images, at least on imageshack. Could you give us a screenshot?

On Photobucket, if the background is grey, the image is grey.

But mine is black because I set it to black.

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/145/sc7vr.th.png

See?