Friday, May 11, 2012

The Super Awesome Alpha-conversion Application

So, you ever have a black and white image and just thought to yourself "gosh darned, I wish this white was transparent, that would just make my day".

Well, in the past that thought has often gone through my head, and I had wondered why no one had ever found a solution. I thought I'd use some techniques to solve this problem.

Basically this application loads up an image, in any common image format, and converts it to greyscale. Then it sets each pixel as black, with transparency equal to its greyscale value. This makes black completely opaque, and white completely transparent, with other values in between.

Somewhat of a useful tool, if you want to make a black and white image transparent.

Download here