On 05/27/2010 12:51 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Frank Gore <g...@friendlyphotozone.com>: > >> There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really a Gimp >> thing: >> >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ >> > Many thanks to all respondents. > > It turns out there are two kinds of transparency; binary & alpha channel. IE6 > can handle binary but not alpha channel. > > Something I read next (I forget what/where it was now) made a link between > 'binary' and 'indexed' (neither term really meaning anything to me) so I used > Gimp to creat a new image, chose to fill it with a transparent background and > then switched to Indexed mode (as opposed to RGB or Greyscale) before > exporting > to PNG, and it worked! > > So, in short, if you want your transparent PNGs to work in IE6, switch to > indexed mode before you export... it really does seem to be as simple as that. > > Sebastian > Can't doing this result in some loss of image quality? Sometimes I'll make PNGs with a drop shadow and transparency and when I convert the image to indexed mode, the drop shadow quality suffers.
Peace... Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
