I never knew I needed it that much, but I need help to get my images able to work!

I upload them to ImageShack fine but when I make something transparent it won't show. This is the image I want as my avatar:



I made it transparent inside GIMP and then in aviary, nothing. I tried it aging and it didn't even show but they do when I look inside the main folder on my computer. I thought the file name might be wrong and when I go into MS Paint
it says save file as "24-bit Bitmap"? I've never even heard of it and almost all of my pictures I've ever done inside Paint are that file format. I've tried it on a totally different image and that didn't show either.

I'll try it on a image of this screen right now. Result: didn't even show on image shack.

Please if you you have any idea tell me! I'm lost and I need the images to able to work.

Try saving the image as a gif file. Add to the end of the name of the image .gif



~Sweep

It stops working every now and then.

JPG image format doesn't support transparent colors. GIF supports 1 and PNG supports multiple. GIF doesn't support all 16.7 million computer recognized colors and also compresses images more than PNG often causing discoloring and blurry images. I suggest you just use PNG. More info can be found in my tutorial.

Edit (instead of reply because this thread is dead): If you use GIMP or Photoshop, set the canvas to be transparent and delete or erase the background. Then save it as a PNG or GIF. Like I said, JPG doesn't support transparent backgrounds. MSPaint doesn't have the ability to create a transparent canvas, so that won't work either. Both of those points are exactly the problem.

That has nothing to do with it. My images won't download to imageshack.

Use tinypic.

Much faster too.

I think I found the problem! I don't think I can upload images that were used inside GIMP or Picnik (the image editors I use.) they don't agree when I want to upload all my stuff I edited inside them.