Editing Pics (how?)

Short question:

How to edit pictures with transparency? .. this will help me a lot in the future so the example is this>>

the normal cursor:



And after editing it (changing color), looks like this:



I think i need to do something about the transparency but i dont know how..

or maybe there's a transparency option on the game while importing?? ..

any suggestion is welcome !

In the "Show Picture" event command you can change "Opacity" which is how solid or transparent it is. 255 is completely solid, 0 is completely invisible.

Not what he is asking...

It depends on your image editing program.

did you save it as png?

@Cadh2000: That wasn't what the poster asked, because that would make the entire cursor transparent, not only the frame area...


@Hekudan:


To edit a picture with transparency, you need an imageprogram that supports both layers and transparency.


MS Paint does not support transparancy - none of the programs included in basic windows does.


The three programs most advertised for image editing on this site are paint.net, GIMP and Photoshop.

Krita is getting awesome too, it would work for this.

Yea, its a PNG file.. happened the same thing with a JPEG, so its not that..

I dont think the show picture would work since its an image located on the system folder, its just like Andar said.. i just downloaded paint.net and some photoshop but i dont understand how to use them.. now i only need to watch some tutorials..

Hope these programs can help

Thanks

I don't know Paint.net, but in Photoshop(at least in CS3) if you right click on the eraser tool's icon you can access different versions of the tool. There is one called "Magic Eraser" which erases all adjoining pixels of a certain color. You can use that on the background and it will get rid of that white. Of course, the original file had no background, the image editor you used earlier added that. Photoshop doesn't replace transparencies with solid color by default though so if you change the color in it you should be fine.

I have the default red color saved, so, you mean that if I edit the red color in photoshop to blue it will work without doing the transparency thing? :D

No, you need to edit the color to transparency, not to another color.
That is why I said the program should support layers...


If the original picture has no transparency left, then you need to make a new picture file in the same pixel size, with the background set to transparent. Into this file you copy the original as a new layer.


If you then erase the background, the transparency pattern will show through. after everything needed is transparent, save the file as a PNG (which will remove the layers but keep the transparency).

I don't know about your version, but Photoshop CS3 will just make it transparent if you erase something in a .png file and there is no layer behind it to show through.

~ Problem Solved ~



I used Photoshop CC (2014) .. At the start it just asked me of the background and set it on Transparent

Thanks =)