[thelist] anyone know a good (cough free cough) tool for making image backgrounds transparent?

[Jackson Yee]

"Daniel Medley" <dm at lgcy.com> wrote in message
news:001401c26945$0e441d00$99ca0ed0 at family5wkvnahw...
> Or, you could purchase PaintShop Pro 7 for about a hundred bucks (or
less).
> I have both it and Photo Shop and for web use PaintShop is every bit as
> useful considering the price. In fact, looking back, I wish that I had
just
> gotten PaintShop and not spent the big bucks on Photo Shop. It supports
> layers, vectors, has a decent little built in optimizer and has just about
> every tool functionality that Photo Shop has.

One program I'd like to suggest if you have some time to work with it is the
GIMP at

http://www.google.com/search?q=gimp+download+win32&sourceid=mozilla-search&s
tart=0&start=0

It has a very steep learning curve, but once you become used to the
interface, it's an invaluable tool with some amazing capabilities.

Oh, and by the way, it's free.  ;-)

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Regards,
Jackson Yee
jyee at vt.edu
http://www.jacksonyee.com/