Hey folks, here’s my question. Any help appreciated:
I use photoshop 7 and Dreamweaver MX. What I’m trying to do is set the background of my webpage to a jpeg design I have. I then want to place a nav bar and logo on top of the background. However, I don’t know how to create and save the logo and nav images so that they aren’t imported as a rectangle image with a white backgroung and the logo. If I’m not making myself clear, here is an example of what I want to do: http://treyanastasio.com/news/
I have a background image like this site (the blue with white circular light), but if I make the logo similar to the Trey Anastasio logo towards the top, it has the white background from photoshop instead of allowing the webpage background image to show. This remains true even if I set the photoshop background to transparent when I first create the logo.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Well, firsto of all… that navigation and logo are done in flash. If you want to use images… you need to set the backround to transparent AND export it as a GIF or PNG. PNG’s transparencies are cool but they don’t work in Internet Explorer. GIF’s transparencies may end up a little bit anti aliased and crappy. If you want it to be like that page… make it flash and turn the background transparent :).
Thanks for the reply unchew. When you say make it in flash and turn it transparent, are you suggesting to make the page in flash with the background, the logo in photoshop with a transparent background, and then import the logo into flash? If I do this, do I still need to save the logo as a gif, or should I use jpeg?
Well, the background can be html. I say you can go to photoshop, make them transparent and save them in PNG (best quality… jpeg doesn’t support transparent canvas), and then import it in flash. After you finish with the flash, you insert it into your html and add a wmode=“transparent” parameter. In that way, the background of the flash file will dissappear letting the html background appear.
