JPGs Rendering Black as Alpha

[Fatone85]

I'm not sure if this issue is arising with anybody, but when I was scanning my DVD covers and saving them under Photoshop as a folder.JPG, the image's black area would be rendered as the transparency. I was going to ask how to fix the issue here, but I tried one last thing and it seemed to work.

What I did was change the Color Palette from a RGB Mode to CMYK Mode and it fixed the issue immediately. The filesize of the resulting image is greater than the RGB mode, but at least I'm not getting the transparency problem anymore.

Again, if I'm the only one who was getting this problem, sorry for wasting a Topic, lol.

Cheers

[bkenobi]

Perfect black is the color that GameEx uses for transparency. One solution is to adjust your images to shift perfect black to something slightly gray. I don't remember the command in Photoshop, but you can do this pretty easily. Basically, there are 256 levels of black available. You need to make sure that you don't have anything in the max range. One notch down won't change the appearance, but it will keep it from going transparent for you.

There was a thread about this a LONG time ago, so it might be hard to find it with the search tool. As I recall, HK gave a quick set of directions, so I know it's not hard.

[Fatone85]

Brilliant!

I should have thought of that.

The tool in Photoshop is in:

[image > Adjustments > Replace Color]

You then just use your sample tool to pick the pure black in the image and change it to whatever

(I just changed it from [#000000] to [#000001] )

Thanks bkenobi!

[headkaze]

There is a utility I wrote called FixColorKey that can fix graphics for use in GameEx.

Tom: Maybe you can place this program on the utilities page on the main webpage?