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Is there an exporting format that's capable of animation but still preserves transparency?

Thanks for any help offered

gif seems to work fine for me

if you want Just transparency use .PNG

But if you want animation use .GIF it gives you transparency but not as good as .PNG does

Guess I should have mentioned "good quality transparency"

Thanks anyway

nope sorry, .GIF is the only animated one, let alone animated with transparency.

Does anyone know of a way to shape the canvas, other than a simple rectangle?

There are plenty of shapes to choose, from the defaults of photoshop to the random shapes made by you with the pentool or whatever selection. Just make a selection then go to edit/define shape... name it so that you can recognise it easy then voila: a custom shape.

Nigatsu_Aka wrote:There are plenty of shapes to choose, from the defaults of photoshop to the random shapes made by you with the pentool or whatever selection. Just make a selection then go to edit/define shape... name it so that you can recognise it easy then voila: a custom shape.

perhaps to further clarify, your canvas will always be rectangular. Using a transparent background and then using a shape/custom shape will give you the final design shape you desire, but the canvas itself cannot be reshaped.

If i'm wrong on that, someone correct me, since i've not seen any custom canvas tools.

if he's still knocking about, dark days is a perfect person to contact about random sig shapes

ive seen him on msn, IDK if he is still playing tho

serrin wrote:

Nigatsu_Aka wrote:There are plenty of shapes to choose, from the defaults of photoshop to the random shapes made by you with the pentool or whatever selection. Just make a selection then go to edit/define shape... name it so that you can recognise it easy then voila: a custom shape.

perhaps to further clarify, your canvas will always be rectangular. Using a transparent background and then using a shape/custom shape will give you the final design shape you desire, but the canvas itself cannot be reshaped.

If i'm wrong on that, someone correct me, since i've not seen any custom canvas tools.

That's basically what I was looking for, thank you

Ah **Filtered**... i misunderstood your question. You cannot shape the canvas. It is always rectangular. You can define shapes and cut out the extra and set that transparent so that the final image doesn`t look rectangular. However, the picture will always be defined by the 2 dimensions (width and hight), thus be rectangular.