i always merge my layers before saving, but is this why the jpegs with transparency work on websites but the pings don’t? TIL. this is valuable shitposting news. I gotta switch over to pings exclusively
JPGs don’t support transparency. Has to be PNG or GIF. WEBP also supports transparency, but it’s got horrible compatibility with editors. There are other options that are overlooked for web like SVG, fantastic for a companies website logo.
Not sure what you are using. In Photoshop do not flatten the image. The program has a “save for web” and you can toggle transparency on and off. Better control than the “save as” and I think “save for screens”.
i was using gimp, but then i moved to paint dot net. i refuse to learn it well because shitposts aren’t supposed to look good and i’m in the “cut the magazine with scissors and glue it together to make a collage” era of photoshop luddism.
I’ve taught this technical junk of print and web to graphic designers for close to 20 years. Trust me when I say not a lot of people understand the nuances and it’s getting worse not better.
Not anyone’s fault really a lot of this his hidden behind the scenes and you have to seek it out and actually care. Which doesn’t come up often, until you need to optimize a websites load speed or print something extremely precise.
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i always merge my layers before saving, but is this why the jpegs with transparency work on websites but the pings don’t? TIL. this is valuable shitposting news. I gotta switch over to pings exclusively
JPGs don’t support transparency. Has to be PNG or GIF. WEBP also supports transparency, but it’s got horrible compatibility with editors. There are other options that are overlooked for web like SVG, fantastic for a companies website logo.
Not sure what you are using. In Photoshop do not flatten the image. The program has a “save for web” and you can toggle transparency on and off. Better control than the “save as” and I think “save for screens”.
More indepth breakdown.
i was using gimp, but then i moved to paint dot net. i refuse to learn it well because shitposts aren’t supposed to look good and i’m in the “cut the magazine with scissors and glue it together to make a collage” era of photoshop luddism.
GIMPs got something like that using a plugin. Haven’t used it myself. But heard it does the trick.
https://templatetoaster.com/tutorials/gimp-save-for-web/
I’ve taught this technical junk of print and web to graphic designers for close to 20 years. Trust me when I say not a lot of people understand the nuances and it’s getting worse not better.
Not anyone’s fault really a lot of this his hidden behind the scenes and you have to seek it out and actually care. Which doesn’t come up often, until you need to optimize a websites load speed or print something extremely precise.
emphasis on the F