kevgray Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Hi all, probably pretty simple but can't get it right. All I want is some plain text as a logo and export it with a transparent background, so it shows as simple text on my web site. I have Designer and Photo, but don't know the best way to do it. Thanks, Kev Gray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 1 hour ago, kevgray said: Hi all, probably pretty simple but can't get it right. All I want is some plain text as a logo and export it with a transparent background, so it shows as simple text on my web site. I have Designer and Photo, but don't know the best way to do it. Thanks, Kev Gray There are alternatives but absolutely the safest method is to export (File > Export) as a GIF file. That has a transparent background and EVERY type of browser understands GIFs and you wont run into font problems. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevgray Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 Thanks for the reply, but how do I create it with a transparent background in the first place (see attached). I used Designer for this. Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 You need to make sure that the document setup specifies a transparent canvas. The option is in a slightly different place depending on which app you’re using, and I don’t have either one in front of me right now, so please post back if you can’t find it! For what it’s worth, I rarely use GIF for static images other than emoticons. PNG-8 files are almost always at least as small as GIFs, and by using PNG-32 instead of PNG-8 you can have alpha transparency (instead of a stark choice between fully on or fully off). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevgray Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 Thanks Alfred, I've actually found 2 ways to do it. 1 - from the 'new' dialogue there's a checkbox for transparent (which I'd nmissed). 2 - or from the 'export' dialogue choose 'export without background'. Cheers Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan79 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Pixel persona > document setup > check "transparent background" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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