Is there an easy way or a way at all for me to take a image and make the background transparent so that I can place it onto a background on my website? I have photoshop cs2 but im mediocre with it!

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There will be a lot of things to consider when you do this for example:

- locked pixel or variable (fluid) theme width: If you have a theme locked at a width such as 800 x ?, you will only require an image that looks good at one screen resolution. Conversely, if your theme is fluid (adjusts to users screen resolution), you will require a very high resolution image as it will not scale up cleanly and will look more pixilated the larger it gets.

- image transparencies: not all browsers support transparent images in any other format than .gif so make sure your image looks good as a .gif. You can also use .png with a transparent background but keep in mind, IE renders the entire background as a light blue square and not a transparency as Firefox does. For this you will require the Alpha Image Loader implemented in your code to properly render .png in IE 5 & 6 I believe (still not sure how IE 7 handles .png).

- afaik, you can only have one background so you'll want to make sure that any overlapping images such as toolbars or tables are also transparent so as not to cover your background image (unless covering the background image is unimportant).

- lastly, make sure your font colors will work with your background image as more vibrant images tend to hide any fonts over them.

Good luck.

Thank you to both of you. The information was very helpful. As a note, I found the Extract feature under the filters tab in CS2.



A second problem I have run into with Photoshop is that I have found a couple of photos where it will not let me turn them into layers. Most allow me to click the layer name and turn it into a layer and then add new layers, but some are locked and won't let me do anything. Any idea why?

You have to change the image from Indexed Color to another format such as CMYK or RGB.

Go to Image/Mode to adjust this value.

Thank you to both of you. The information was very helpful. As a note, I found the Extract feature under the filters tab in CS2.



A second problem I have run into with Photoshop is that I have found a couple of photos where it will not let me turn them into layers. Most allow me to click the layer name and turn it into a layer and then add new layers, but some are locked and won't let me do anything. Any idea why?

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