On 09/13/2012 11:53 PM, FortKnox wrote:

So I have an odd issue. What I am trying to do is to add the logo of the gym that turned my life around to my Gmail signature, and make the logo a link to their site. I'm fairly experienced with digital graphic art concepts, I've been a GIMP'er for years, yet this one has me stumped. So if you go to http://www.accelerationsport.com/ you'll see their logo in between "Home" and "Weekly schedule." It's a black image with white lettering and a white stick figure. This one, although this displays as entirely white: http://www.accelerationsport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ASI_Logo-Reverse-White2-2.png Yet when I right-click on it and choose Copy image, then go to my Gmail settings and paste it into my signature, nothing shows up. "Uh?" So I opened GIMP and chose to Paste from clipboard. "Oh, now it shows up!" So I chose Select all, hit copy, and tried again to paste it into my Gmail signature. Yet again, nothing. So on a whim, I inverted the colors, copied, and tri

ed

to paste again. Still nothing.

The logo is a transparent PNG with the image content in white. If you save the PNG, open it in the GIMP and add a new black layer, move the black layer to the bottom, and save the image, you should have one that works.

:o)

Steve

Saving your png image w/transparency as jpg flattens your image (that's what Gmail does too) - removes
alpha channel and fills transparency with background color (which is white by default). This is why you see
completely white image. Hit the x key on your keyboard (it will swap background and foreground colors)
before saving it as jpg in GIMP.

----- Nik O.
Никита Омуль
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