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Published: 2010-06-12 07:17:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 9006; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 69
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This here is a tutorial !Commander-Luminaire developed for the kingdom that he didn't want us to lose. So I am resubmitting it, with his blessing.Related content
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You are quite welcome.
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I'm one of those people who can't use GIMP or Photoshop and I can't make transparent borders with Picnik or MS Paint... so I suppose my stamps aren't welcome. Oh well.
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I'm sorry, but rules are rules.
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Your loss, I suppose.
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Say I want to copy paste a picture on Photoshop,
I can't find the "Selection Square" and I also tried to crop it but I can't get the whole thing >.< and when I do 93px 49px it doesn't fill the whole thing. Do you know what I'm doing right?
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Um, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you possibly screenshot it or something? I don't use photoshop, myself.
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Aw okay, I just have a little difficulty deleting the white corners
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that you for caring, freakingpurple, because i am one of those people who cant get GIMP or any other better software, and i dont like being excluded.
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Gimp and Paint.NET are also free programs, it's well worth trying it out.
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Harsh... Do you just mean a border that blends in with the background? Because all the people who can't afford software and use ms paint can't do transoerant borders. I am not one if these people as I use gimp, but it would be really sad to exclude people?
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I'm sorry, your comment has confused me. 
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what he means is theres a program called MS paint where you cannot do transparent things. There are people that can only use that, and one of thosee people is me.
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I'm sorry, I am confused. Who are you trying to reply to?
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forget it- i was being stupid
i was trying to say that i cant do transparent, but i colored the outside and found a way around it.
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Colouring the outside still isn't transparent, though.
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oh..?
i thought you said i could do that... im kindof confused now :'
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No, I never said that.
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oh.. i misunderstood... i guess i cant be in the group then...
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although i will try to figure a way to do it transparent.
i know how it feels to not want to let down a rule.
i also know your not trying to be mean.
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On Microsoft paint you can't do transparent borders. People who cannot afford other software and use paint will therefore be excluded from this group. Isn't that a bit mean?
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It's our policy. There are free programs that allow transparency, like The GIMP.
It's not meant to be mean. Honest.
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How do you do a selection square in PS Elements 6?
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The rectangular marquee tool? I'm not sure, I don't use PS.
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This is helpful. 
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if I may ask, why does my stamp came out with white bg and it looses its transparency when I make the animation on Adobe Imageready 7.0?
and how can I make it invisible?
because each time I save it, it loses its transparency
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Yes, that is what happened to me too, using Paint.Net....
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I dunno, I have never used ImageReady, but it may be the file type. Try saving it as a png or gif.
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so what did you actually used to animate and to "pixelize" stamps?
even if I saved it as a gif and cropped it, this is the example of the outcome
[link]
even thought I already cropped it when I'm working on it
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Cropping only affects the size of the canvas/image. Does the edge actually look transparent in your program while working on it? There should be an option when you export or save the image to preserve that transparency.
I personally use Fireworks, you use imageready, right? Have you read up the help manual to see if it has any tips for saving with transparency?
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yes it does
I already set the thing on the preference and output but it still doesn't work
Adobe Fireworks?
like, I read the manual thousands of times but I still can't find the transparency thingo D:
thanks
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Hmm, I am not sure.
Yes, Adobe Fireworks.
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hurr, so with Fireworks, I can create gifs without preserving the colors and it could have transparent edges?
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What do you mean by preserving the colours?
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I mean, the colors got preserved like, it has those dots after I saved it D8
like those dots are the matte or diffusion
I mean it didn't show clear and bright images OTL
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Oh, that is weird, I don't know what is up with that.
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that's why
did you download Fireworks for free, or with payment? sorry to disturb you >_<
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Fireworks you do have to pay for, if you want something free, I would recommend trying the GIMP.
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oh my. D8
I'll get there someday D8
thank you so much~
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wait... Does EVERY stamp have to have a little white thing around it?
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The border? It is required by our rules, though it does not have to be white. You can change it.
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okay, its just im getting REALLY confused with how to make it. see, the border i made on paint is um... rubbish. just lok at my newest stamp. =/
oh yeah thats a thing, the only program i have is paint so, how do i make transparensy there?
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You can't, unfortunately.
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aww, but its okay, im aloud t download any program, so which do i need?
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