[NCLUG] OT: transparent jpg

[Evelyn Mitchell]

My quick test with the gimp (select transparent background, fill with
gradient, cut a hole in the middle, save as .jpg) didn't work.
"JPG can't have transparency".

If you want transparent, I'd try gif, or perhaphs png.

Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:41:39PM -0700, mike cullerton wrote:
> hey folks, this is slightly off topic, but it is for a website hosted on a
> linux box :)
> 
> anyway, is there such thing as a transparent jpg. in photoshop, if a make a
> simple graphic and try to save it as jpg, i can't find an option to make it
> transparent. the same image, if saved as a gif, can be saved as transparent.
> 
> is transparency not possible in the jpg format?
> 
> thanks,
> mike
> 
>  -- mike cullerton
> 
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