MS Paint: can one fill "transparent"

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If there is a better suited forum/newsgroup for MS paint: please advise!

I am trying to generate a few icons using MS-Paint. The icons' background should be "transparent", i.e. not cover the underlying content. What color *is* "transparent"? And can one use MS Paint to fill an images background with that color?

All icons I created so far, have a white background (or whatever I choose as the image's background color) but not transparent.

Michael
 
Michael said:
If there is a better suited forum/newsgroup for MS paint: please
advise!

I am trying to generate a few icons using MS-Paint. The icons'
background should be "transparent", i.e. not cover the underlying
content. What color *is* "transparent"? And can one use MS Paint to
fill an images background with that color?

All icons I created so far, have a white background (or whatever I
choose as the image's background color) but not transparent.

Michael
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I don't believe Paint can handle transparency. There is no "color".
When an area is transparent, you see thru it to whatever it behind it.
Also only .gif & .png formats support transparancy.
 
Download Microsoft's 'Image Edit' a tiny program capable of creating icons
with the two special 'colors' of 'See-through' and 'See-through inverse'.
It is limited to working with icons with only 16 colors but it is free.

Download 'Image Edit' from Microsoft at:

http://www.dynawell.com/download/ResKit/Microsoft/WinNT/imagedit.zip


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


If there is a better suited forum/newsgroup for MS paint: please advise!

I am trying to generate a few icons using MS-Paint. The icons' background
should be "transparent", i.e. not cover the underlying content. What color
*is* "transparent"? And can one use MS Paint to fill an images background
with that color?

All icons I created so far, have a white background (or whatever I choose as
the image's background color) but not transparent.

Michael
 
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