PNGs have black lines around them

[gekko]

Whenever I use a PNG file that is a cutout, meaning it has a lot of edges, like a cut out of another graphic, Winamp3 puts these ugly thin black lines around it. Is it just my terrible Photoshop skills or does Winamp3 need some work?

[Naamloos]

Can you give is a shot how it looks like...
also when it doesnt have a layer behind it of course it looks ugly cause it's anti aliased ( I think ) and you need to add desktopalpha="1" (only for XP and 2k)

[gekko]

that's probably what the problem is, because i am running win2k, where should i add the code that you sampled above? I have no idea where to put it....

[Naamloos]

<layout *blablabla* desktopalpha="!">

[gekko]

nope that didn't do it... i'll post a link to the pic

www.angelfire.com/ego/thegekko

[gekko]

also, i have another question... how do you make a PNG translucent. I can do it in photoshop, but after I save the document, it isn't translucent on the desktop. I wanna be able to see the my desktop through my skin (this is a different skin from the one in the link above btw). Can I do that?

[YtseJam]

<layout *blablabla* desktopalpha="!">

! -> 1

?

[jarsonic]

you can always try.

basically, what we're saying is that you need to put THIS in your XML:

<layout *blablabla* desktopalpha="1">

notice how the value is "1", not "!".

- Jarsonic

[YtseJam]

That's what I said. Only without words... ;)

[Naamloos]

sorry for my bug :( i hope it works now :)

[gekko]

I'm not that big of an idiot.. I realize it was a one aka "1". Thanks for the clarification though. However, this still didn't work. if you look at the pic i placed on this site (an anime shot of Yuri from Dirty Pair Flash) you'll see the lines - this is with the desktoalpha="1" enabled. Please help, this happens with ever skin I make, it sux...

Here's the link again:

www.angelfire.com/ego/thegekko

thnx

[demajen]

The black lines are just from how you have made the skin transparent. PNG's don't do soft edges very well, and therefore you'll have to go round with a fine brush to get rid of all the black pixels.

[gekko]

thanks to everyone anyway, but i found out what the prob was. It was a winamp prob. I was using beta one, and when i switched to beta2, the black lines didn't show up. beta2 rocks!