I have "photoshopped" a friend who now appears to be Superman. I want to save just his image without any background so I can have him "fly" across a powerpoint slide. I have pasted the image on a New document and selected Transparent" as the background. Each time I insert the image into powerpoint, the image is rectangular. Aargh! First the Indianapolis Colts, now this! Thanks for your help!

Tony in Indy

Do you save it as Jpeg?
JPEG doesnt support transperancy.
GIF does

Here you go!

Powerpoint? Everybody knows Powerpoint is EVIL. Flash is the way to go, of course.

Thanks!

I'd suggest saving it as a png. Gifs make jagged transparencies.

The only downside of a png is that IE doesn't support it. Everyone should be using Firefox though, <_<

D.O.C. is rite .png is the way to go, download and play the tutorial 'transparent image' from this page,
http://www.hallcross.co.uk/free%20stuff/tuts.htm

I couldn't get splodge's page to open, and if you can't either, check out http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm...they give a 'dirty' method for adapting the image which might not be too useful in animations, but as Death said, using a PNG is the way to go...and get flash.

Gifs are awful because they use indexed colors. A fine solution before we had real compression schemes, but for the most part obsolete--modems don't run 2400 baud anymore...at least I hope yours doesn't.

BTW, check out http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtestfixed.htm for a method of using PNG w/alpha in IE (view source for the JS that you add to your page).

If its in Powerpoint (and if you have to use powerpoint)... you can select a color to be made transparent in the picture toolbar.

Just make the background a color that is totally different from any other color in the photo. Once in PP, click on the "select transparent color" tool in the picture toolbar and click on the color.

Thats a quick and dirty way to do it.
Good luck

works for me, if any one elss is having a problem let me know, i will try to fix it, but there is 400MB on that one page, try letting it download or tell me a better way of offering it up and i will comply, i'm only here to help

I'M TO GOOD TOO YOU LOT

It's working fine for me now...no idea why neither was working earlier--maybe that's what i get for using an airport w/Windows. Nice tuts, btw.