photoshop ..How do i make a .bmp background Transparent ..Requesting HELP!

Hi i try to make a .bmp transparent background in photoshop but never seem to work..try 1million time, 255,0,255 dont work
everytime i make the image transparent in photoshop, when i save it , it alway turn back to white bg

Thank
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Reply #1 Top
You cant give a .bmp a transparent background. You have to use .gif as far as I know.
Reply #3 Top
or a B&Q
Reply #4 Top
If the proggy you are making the bmp for uses 'magic pink' as a transparency....that is coded into the proggy....the image is simply a straight bitmap, where the transparency is read by the proggy to be 255,000,255 or 'magic pink', chosen because it was a colour unlikely to be used in any general graphics.
As long as the bmp is saved [without any aliasing] to straight 256 colours or higher the proggy 'should' read the pink as transparent....
Reply #5 Top
'without and aliasing' = 'without any anti-aliasing'
Reply #6 Top
grayhaze...'without and aliasing' = 'without any aliasing' as I said....meaning 'anti, or otherwise'... Spell checker
Reply #7 Top
'aliasing' = with hard edges
'anti-aliasing' = without hard edges

therefore

'without any aliasing' = with smooth edges
'without any anti-aliasing' = with hard edges

If you save an image using magic pink 'without any aliasing', you get a pink halo round the final image where the magic pink isn't pure. Bad Jafo, bad!
Reply #8 Top
And yes, I know I typed 'and' instead of 'any', but you know what I meant.
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Again....The idea was for this person to leave the image alone...for it to be a straight bitmap and references to 'aliasing' was intended to explain 'don't mess with the image' in other words a 'straight bitmap' with no affectations of ANY sort......good grief I can't be any clearer....my mistake was in pre-supposing the guy didn't know what 'aliasing' was in the first place so I wasn't about to confuse him with its antithesis....
Reply #10 Top
GH, Bail while you still can, and run very hard, catching jafo on a typo mean a certain death

yeah, you could use magic pink indeed, (#FF00FF) just select the outer colour with the wand tool and delete it, it might be that you have to cut some white pixels away to get it nice.