Portrait images with white backgrounds. Need transparent product images.

making the product images (portrait ones) background clear.

I have a personal photography print shop and I have pictures in both Landscape (more wide than tall) and Portrait (Taller than wide).
The Landscape ones are fine but the portrait ones have white on each side of the picture.
Is there any code I can insert (say css/default or some place?) that can make the background of the image transparent?

Any and all help is appreciated. I don't konw much about coding but I'm learning so much just in the little under a week I've been in this community.

Maybe somewhere in here? Again, I have no idea this is just guessing. I thought I better ask the experts before I start meddling and breakdown my store.

*Start*
220>  .products, .images, .categories {
float: left;
width: 33.3%;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 10px;
height: 140px;
}

.categories a {
text-decoration: none;
}

.images a {
font-size: 10px;
}

.images img, .categories img {
border: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

242   .results {
*end*


Thanks again,
Scubi

The white background is created in the actual image when it is resized by opencart. Even files with transparent backgrounds will end up with white.

Ah... Gotcha.

I can live with it.
Thanks for the info.

Scubi

You need to add this --> http://us3.php.net/imagesavealpha to your php.ini file or somewhere else.  I don't have any experience with GD but others here do.

-JO

it is actually setup that way in code...

in the library/images/image.php file line53  $background  = imagecolorallocate($destination, 255, 255, 255);

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Dev ... 49792.html

post an example of keeping the alpha of the image...   sorry i don;t have time to see if this can be worked in or not..

also on this note... all images that are resized....  are saved/cached as a jpeg  not as there orginal type...  this controller may need to be expanded to handle this operation
ex  original file type gif -> resized = jpg

Jonathon

bruce wrote: The white background is created in the actual image when it is resized by opencart. Even files with transparent backgrounds will end up with white.

How do you stop OpenCart from resizing the images?

Image resizing is done by the relevant controller using the width and height values set in the administration.

If you wish to change the size of thumbnail images, go to Admin->Configuration->Setting->Image. You can also turn image resizing off if you wish, by setting "Resize Images" to "No" on this page.

Regards, Fido-X.