I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.

Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency.

I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?

Use a different file format (e.g. png or gif support transparency - where png's transparency is not fully supported by Internet Explorer, IE only uses transparency in png in indexed mode)

Andreas

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote:

Greetings,
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site allowing the background image to show around the text. ?

I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. ?Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. ?How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format?

you don't. jpegs were not designed to handle transparency.

try png. all of the colors of jpegs and tranparency as well.

carol

Steve Croteau wrote:

1) Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. 2) Use gif or png instead.
3) To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to indexed.

s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct.

Michael