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groomy.amigo
06-11-2013, 09:30 PM
Hi,
is it possible to make imported pictures opaque?
The background for this question is: I´m trying to color single frets and put a frame around the chord-shapes for better memorisation.
I think, I can create the frames with Gimp, export them as .png, import it to Neck Diagrams, positioning it and make it opaque.

Any suggestions

bye Kai

Justin
06-13-2013, 07:39 AM
Hi Kai,

Are you sure you mean opaque (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opaque)? I think you're actually asking about transparency, yes?

If you have a look at the "_READ ME" example page you'll see that the Neck Diagrams logo appears in the top left corner and when you select it you'll notice it has transparency as the blue page background shows through! So there's an example showing it can be done - as long as the image file being added to the page supports transparency, e.g. PNG or GIF, then that will work fine.

However if you really do mean opaque then I think you're maybe asking about making sure the image is on top of the fretboard? The Z-order is controlled simply by the newest added item being higher in the Z order, so if you move things on top of each other things added first would show below things added last (most recently). So if you have something on the page you want to move to the top just cut and paste it - as it's then re-added when pasted it moves to the top!

Hope that helps, or if not you'll need to explain you question further!

groomy.amigo
06-13-2013, 04:12 PM
OK, transparency was the missing word (I´m German ;D ) Thanks for your answer.
But where can I set the tranparency, its not in the inspector?

Bye Kai

Justin
06-14-2013, 07:00 AM
No, you can't set the transparency in the Inspector. This wouldn't do what I think you want to do anyway - it would make the whole image transparent, i.e. fading it out!

What I think you want to do is create an image in Gimp, your frame, that has transparent sections, right? i.e. bits you can see through.

For example a trapezoid where you can only see the outline of the trapezoid and outside and inside is hollow and see-through. In this case you need to create you image with a transparent background and save it to an image format that supports the transparency, as mentioned earlier.

You might find these Gimp tutorials useful:

http://mbrsolution.com/tutorial/gimp-tutorial-how-to-make-an-image-background-transparent.php
http://cafesuccess.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/making-images-with-transparent.html

groomy.amigo
06-14-2013, 07:19 AM
Ok, thats it! :)

Thanks a lot