Fucking pngs, how do they work?

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this happening because people are screenshotting images? Fundamentally misunderstanding the reason for the background? It’s maddening

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s probably a combo of a lot of things, like screenshotting, encoding issues, accidental conversion, etc, but at least for sites that advertise themselves as image repositories, I’m pretty sure it’s to get you to actually visit the site. I’ve run into sites where the real image actually costs money to download, and ones where it’s free and they’re probably hoping for ad revenue from the page view.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe people just appreciate the style. Like kids buying VHS tapes and watching movies in “full screen” pan and scan. They think the bug was the feature.

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME.

  FFS figure out how to filter this shit Google.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In GIMP, use the magic select tool to select the colors in the background and delete them. Your milage may vary depending on partial transparency in the foreground, and anti-aliasing (on any part of the image).

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    • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That is so not the point, I shall congratulate you on your shitcomment.

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google has had a transparent image filter for decades

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• Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta make sure it’s rendered the same on IE5 still.

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  • AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You might want to consider trauma therapy.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      first, with what money and second, they’ll be retired before i make it to the top of their waiting list, so third why?

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair fair, very important. What’s also important is that we get our prostate checked, and/or get some mammograms done.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wait.

  waitwaitwait.

  i always merge my layers before saving, but is this why the jpegs with transparency work on websites but the pings don’t? TIL. this is valuable shitposting news. I gotta switch over to pings exclusively

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  • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JPGs don’t support transparency. Has to be PNG or GIF.

    Not sure what you are using. In Photoshop do not flatten the image. The program has a “save for web” and you can toggle transparency on and off. Better control than the “save as” and I think “save for screens”.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i was using gimp, but then i moved to paint dot net. i refuse to learn it well because shitposts aren’t supposed to look good and i’m in the “cut the magazine with scissors and glue it together to make a collage” era of photoshop luddism.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m convinced it’s mostly one or two jerks with time on their hands doing this for the lulz. Seems like the search engines should be able to identify if there is a transparent layer or not and indicate this.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Search tumblr. They have all the real transparent pngs for some reason.

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