Transparent background to image

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 4:55 pm

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  http://dickiebo.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=37429&action=edit
  Can I get a transparent background to an image which I want to add to a post, please? It’s coming up with a white background, whereas I would like it basically, to have no background. (My current theme is pink so it looks kinda silly!)
  Many thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 10:04 am

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  I’m not gonna go away!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 11, 2011 at 12:14 pm

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  You have those frames around your images because that is how the gallery feature is designed to look in Strange Little Town theme.

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm

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  It’s the smiley featured in the above-mentioned post that I mean.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm

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  The link goes to your dashboard and I can not look at your dashboard. Does it mean that you have not published the post you are talking about?

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm

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  http://dickiebo.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/testing-2/
  Sorry.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 6:33 pm

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  You need to create a different version of the image: PNG with transparent background.

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 8:45 pm

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  Thanks. What is PNG?

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 9:13 pm

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  PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It’s a lossless bitmap image format that is popular on the World Wide Web and elsewhere. PNG was largely developed to deal with some of the shortcomings of the GIF format and allows storage of images with greater color depth and other important information.

  More: http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 9:28 pm

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  Thanks very much indeed. I shall immediately start swotting up on it! Thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 12, 2011 at 9:16 am

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  Many graphics programs such as Photo Shop and Gimp will work with PNG as well as many other formats and save images in different formats. Gimp is open source and free if you don’t want to buy or don’t have an existing graphics program. I use Gimp and have been quite happy with it.

  Good luck

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 12, 2011 at 9:34 am

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  +1 for Gimp. I use Photoshop, but I also have Gimp and it is a great program.

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  dickiebo · Member · Nov 12, 2011 at 10:33 am

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  Thanks, guys. Your help and advice is always very much appreciated.