Transparent Color Command

[Bluefish73]

Hello all,
I'm having a bit of a problem making my first skin, naturaly.

First off I'm using PSP7 and I'm attempting to paint a skin from Pacific Fighters. My problem so far is trying to get the white color on the 'void' skin to become transparent. What I'm doing is selecting the entire image and then choosing Selections > Modify > Transparent Color and then picking white as the color I want transparent. Needless to say it's not working.

My intention is to get color from a layer below the void.bmp to show through in place of white. But I can't seem to replace white with transparency. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Bluefish

[WarWolfe]

I would donwload "remove white" and its dll for what you are wanting to do. The files haven't been reuploaded here yet so I will upload them.

look for them here at SimmersPaintshop sortly.

I hope this helps you

[Bluefish73]

Warwolf,

Thanks for the reply, however I've already downloaded it and don't know what to do with it!

I'm looking at 2 files after download, Macwhite.8bf and Mpcurl.8bf.

What exactly am I supposed to do with these?

Thanks,
Bluefish

[adlabs6]

These files go into your plugins directory. I'm not sure about Paintshop Pro, but in Photoshop the directory is /plugins/filters/.

[Bluefish73]

Yeah, a little searching on my part and I installed the filter. Unfortunately, the filter only worked once, and then it says that it's 'unable to load the requested plugin filter. The plugin may not be installed properly or may be missing files.'

I set up a test image with 3 layers, one of them white and it worked like a champ. The layer beneath shown through. When I tried it on my void.bmp however I got the dreaded message above. Now it won't even work on my test image. I've reinstalled to no avail.

I'm stumped again!

[WarWolfe]

Make sure that you convert the Background layer to raster layer. this sould do the trick.

[Bluefish73]

Somehow, the remove white file became corrupted? The page turner works but remove white keeps telling me the error message I wrote above. I'm going to try downloading it again to a different folder this time.

Thanks for your help though, I'll let you know if it works.

[Bluefish73]

I've changed all the directorys and did a fresh download. Still doesn't work. This sucks!

[Serval]

Have you trioed the DLL files allready? Very often PSP at least needs the Plugin.dll file it the same directory where the EXE file goes.

Remember these are originally Photoshop filters you have to get to work with Paintshop Pro

[Serval]

They are here: http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...p?do=cat&id=11

Actually it's a Photoshop filter (.8bf) but PSP is able to use most Photoshop filters.