# Rounded rectangle

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [August 26, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305 "2004-08-26T18:24:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![madeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@madeye](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/madeye)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/1 "2004-08-26T18:24:13Z")

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I made a rounded rectangle (A rectangle with round edges) But when i delete the background and only keep the shape. The background is still there when i save it as JPG. How do I keep the shape only?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/2 "2004-08-26T18:39:38Z")

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That background is there because JPG doesn’t support transparency. Use either GIF or PNG - they support transparency, with the difference that PNG supports multiple alpha levels as opposed to GIF that’s just either transparent or not. There’s a term for that transparency that PNG supports but it can’t come to my mind now.

For just a transparent border, I’d use GIF. Smaller filesize and only 2 colors are used anyway: the border color and transparent.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/3 "2004-08-26T18:50:22Z")

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Thanks it really helped! :cap:

And one more thing, when you add text to an image, is it possible to give the text a hyperlink to a web page or not cos i really need to know.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/4 "2004-08-26T18:52:05Z")

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From the image itself, no, but you can add a linkarea to it. That’s basically the same as the hit area of a button in Flash - a hotspot which you can link to whereever you want 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/5 "2004-08-26T18:57:59Z")

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OK thanx again

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rounded-rectangle/62305/6 "2004-08-26T22:23:05Z")

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madeye - not to be confused with majeye…

welcome to the forums!