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I need to know how to make the area around my sprites invisible, intead of having a white box/rectangle.

Asked by Shadebow

I'm trying to create game sprites which are just the images themselves without a white background. I guess you'd say I'm trying to set transparency within my images, but only for the unused pixels.

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Shadebow (shadebow) said : 		#1

I've tried several different techniques, and so far the only thing my friends tell me is that I need to get Photoshop to achieve this. I'd really rather not have to spend that much money.

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Kattekrab (donna) said : 		#2

By default exporting pngs should have transparent backgrounds...
perhaps you could upload an SVG file somewhere as an example?

This image was created with inkscape - and then exported as png... the space between the border and the orange circle should be transparent. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f0da2ea42125b7aae7ba8e3c6e11ce20e04e75f6e8ebb871

Or have I misunderstood what you are trying to do?

You can also use GIMP.org instead of photoshop.

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Shadebow (shadebow) said : 		#3

You're not going to believe this, but 1 1/2 hours after I posted this message I checked the forums on my default graphics program (paint.NET) and found what I needed; however, thank you for your response. I really do appreciate it!

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pbhj (pbhj) said : 		#4

Note that historically IE (Internet Explorer from Microsoft) has had an appalling implementation of a PNG render that failed to do the transparency correctly. IE8 should get it right (but has some issues elsewhere with PNG, http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/articles/png-gamma.html), I know that IE7 still had some problems too.