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Re: badge for participants
Sacha Griffin 2006-Jul-16 19:35:00
All you need is the psd to save the appropriate matte color.
Question: Is there an official badge yet? If so where.
Photoshop
Save for Web, click on the matt color box on the right side, and choose
your background.
If you don't have photoshop and need a specific color, I or someone
else can help you out.
Sacha
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> I don't know how to do this myself, but I'm sure it's possible. Could
> someone write a PHP script that could accept a background colour and
> then dynamically generate a badge for us to use. Mind you most of us
> have access to a paint package and would be able to do this ourselves.
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> Bob Bilsland.
> http://www.panoramasunlimited.com
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> --- In #removed#, Pat Swovelin <Panoramas@...> wrote:
> >
> > Erik Krause wrote:
> > > Am Thursday, July 13, 2006 um 4:59 schrieb Pat Swovelin:
> > >
> > >> When using a GIF with a transparent BG you need to know the color
> of the
> > >> page/element it's going to lay over or you will have fringing
> around the
> > >> edge of the transparent area or a jagged transition area (if you
> don't
> > >> use a matte color). For it to blend in correctly you need to use
the
> > >> correct matte color in the GIF.
> > >
> > > You can use a PNG where there are semi-transparent areas
possible.
> >
> > The problem with that is that the world's dominant browser (gag me)
IE
> > doesn't support more the PNG transparency format other than on/off.
> >
> > > I always used the supplied badges (the only blue-white one) from
> > > http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/link_kit.html.en and adjusted
the
> > > RGB output levels in photoshop in order to meet my page
background.
> > > This won't work for the ones with multiple colors, at least not
> > > without some masking.
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > --
> > > Erik Krause
> > > Offenburger Str. 33
> > > 79108 Freiburg
> >
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> > Pat Swovelin
> > Cool Guy @ Large
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