White background on exported logo graphic

I have created a logo graphic in Corel Draw which I have on my website. The logo is saved as a png file.

The website has the logo on a white background, this is fine. I wanted to put the logo onto a grey banner. When I do this the logo appears as if it is on a white square.

Obviously in creating the logo I have produced it on a white page background. Is it possible to create it on a "clear" background so that if I re-save it as a png file and import it to my website I can place it on any coloured background without seeing the white square.

I hope this makes sense

Mike

Hi Mike

there will be a way to export your png from coreldraw with a transparent background - but I cant be specific, because I don't have the program on my current machine.
Look for an option that saves with alpha[channel] or 32bit mode or simply with transparency

It will be covered in the corel help somewhere I feel sure.

Steve,

Thanks. There is an option to save the graphic in png format with a transparent background. However it doesn't seem to make any difference.

When I save the graphic and then add it to anything with a non white background the result is always the logo with a white square behind.

Mike

Sally is the corel expert here, hopefully she will be able to sort this in due course.
Its not flattening during save is it? Photoshop can do that with png if its muti-layer and the background's white.

You should copy your logo and paste it into Photo Paint, then create a mask from the object. Now save it as a png and use the mask option for the transparency. This should work for you. If there is a line about the logo after you have saved it, you need to make the mask tighter.

gosh - do you really need to go through all that just to export a transparent background png in corel draw? :eek:

I don't know if there is another way, but I know this one works, I have been using it for the last few days for my animated gifs.

always in favour of what works :D
just seems a long way round
maybe quicker to import into ps and use magic eraser?
cant tell without seeing file

what browser are you viewing it in?

geo.

I'm using Internet Explorer.

I would have thought that it should be a straight forward process to save the graphic (in whatever format) without the white background.

I can accomplish what I want. What I can do is create the graphic on a coloured background that matches the banner colour - assuming that is that the colours match up.

Curiosity has now got the better of me and I would like to know if it is at all possible to save the image with a transparent background. Logic tells me that you should.

Mike

If you’re using an older version of IE (not 7) you will see the background on a png. If you need a transparent background for IE you should do a gif. The reason a told you to use Photo Paint is because it has a better export filter. It is part of the CorelDraw suite. If you don’t want to copy and paste you should convert it to a bitmap and then edit it. It will bring up PP to do this. You don’t have to do the object mask although this is just a menu click to do so. You can choose to make the background transparent. It’s just that if you have any of the background color in your logo it will be transparent too. The object mask is a cleaner way of doing it.

gif and png have transparency, so it should be possible.
jpg dosn't - it was designed for photographs.

Just seen Aunt Betsy's post - as I dont have corel draw these days my memory is dated
Also I'd forgotten IE didn't support png transparency until version 7 :o :o
silly old firefox user me.

Going along with what Aunt Betsy said, at the unleash.com site, Jeff Harrison has a little tutorial on how to get a great .png with both CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint. But I would, as Aunt Betsy told you, use PhotoPaint as it does have better filters for bitmap output.

http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/pngfromdraw/index.asp

Thank you everyone,

Sally, thank you for the link.

The difficulty I have is that I am not a very skilled corel draw user. I can create what I need and not much else. I haven't used photopaint and therefore much of the advice has, unfortunately, gone right over my head. I also think that jeffh's tutorial is beyond what I am trying to achieve.

Because I am using the logo graphic on my website, and do not know what browser a visitor to the site is using, I need to find a simple way to either create the graphic, or export the graphic, with a transparent background.

Thanks
Mike

You can export from Draw as a gif and use the color picker in the dialog box to select your background color as the transparency. If you have any of the background color in your logo it will be transparent too. It will not look as good as a png but you can do it. The gif transarency is the oldest and works in all the browsers that I know of.

When you don't know if it will work, if you have a plain solid color background, you could make your background the same color to match your web page. This is what is called "apparent transparency". It has no real transparency but blends perfectly because it has the identical Hex code as the background. It also make a smaller file size as transparent .gifs and .pngs are bigger in size than non-transparent ones of the same height and width.