Image links with transparent background

  • MajinSaha

    (@majinsaha)


    14 years ago

    Hi everyone.
    I’m very new to WP, and I need somebody’s help. I want to put images on one of my pages in WP. They are placed usually as links. If you click on them, you get a full-sized image in a separate window/tab. That’s normal and that’s how it should be.
    But I’m troubled with making the background for these images transparent. I’m using some external image editor to prepare an image. The image has a background, I select options that allow me to set this background as transparent. I’m sure this editor works as it should and WP is showing images its own way. How can I force it to do what I described ? I mean, if the background color of my page in WP is yellow, for example, the image will fit nicely by just lying on the background without having annoying white or whatever border around it.
    I need this to present screenshots of some application with arrows and annotations attached to it, describing each feature element.

    Thanks to all who reply!

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  • Hi MajinSaha!

    To make the transparent background of your images you need to save them in to PNG format.

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    a link to your site might get you more replies –
    makes it easier to check what is going on, maybe a background is set in the style sheet … (just guessing)

    also – what theme are you using?

    Thread Starter MajinSaha

    (@majinsaha)

    @cadic,
    I’ve been using PNG since the very beginning.

    @alchymyth,
    I’m developing locally on my WAMP server since there’s no internet on my machine. I’m typing to this thread from another one. So I doubt I can show you any of that.
    I tried three themes, of which two I remember : abcOK (by SQLS) and BusinessWriter ( by Anonymous).

    Maybe I forgot to mention, but I need the LINKS (which are in form of images) to have transparent backgrounds. The images themeselves, when opened in full-size mode in another window by following those links, will be OK since I use white background by default.

    Thread Starter MajinSaha

    (@majinsaha)

    Ok, I decided to switch to another image editor and it started working. But even now, not all WP themes detect the transparency. Well, at least some of them do.

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