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Problems designing my own knobs

Archive · 2008 6 old posts

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NekroDisko ·

Hello there. I have a probably very stupid question. I am trying to make my own knobs by using photographs from the web of screws, bolts and the like, but cant seem to get Photoshop (CS2) to do what I want. I know the basics how to cut out the "circular" object from the background and to use layers to put things on top of eachother. My problem is that eventhough I erase the background, when I load up the knob I´ve made in the bitmaploader of a SM knob, there is always a backgroundcolour there. I have tried to save as Tiff, Png and Bmp and even messed around with Alpha -values inside the SM knob but to no avail. Someone? Grateful! 🙂

bootsy ·

you have to erase the background in PS to transparency. Export to .png and everything ishould be fine.

NekroDisko ·

Ok. Thanx. I´ll give it a go.

digitalbass ·

Would anyone know how to remove the background of a knob made in knobman?

electrogear ·

digitalbass wrote: Would anyone know how to remove the background of a knob made in knobman?

Save it as a PNG strip. 🙂

bootsy ·

png with alpha is the ticket ...

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