Ahem....how do you save a background?

[pduggan]

Open Delta Moon's 'grnstar.gif' in Xara, open up the export dialogue box, select GIF or PNG, scale the view to fit, turn off transparency...

And bingo, there's your border!

Peter</p>

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>

PS Oops, simultaneous postings again...

PPS Spotted it when I checked the visible image against its bounding box. The export thing was really just for confirmation.

[This message was edited by Peter Duggan on June 14, 2001 at 15:26.]

[\"W\"]

Makes sense now. I had a "feeling" you were using a large bitmap for a background. You can convert the bitmap to editable shapes and crop the border in Xara with the shape editor tool... or trim it with a rectangle etc...

Wayne

[BobS]

You can use the options in XaraX to check your background before exporting it and avoid nasty problems with transparent borders.

[Delta Moon]

OK, I have some time to work on it now, yes, that's right, I do have a transparancy over it.
and I actually thought I had them joined. I was doing some other transparancy and I liked the looks when the stars went green, so I dedided to use that as a background.

Nice work guys.


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