Item Frame (Shadow) issues with GreyMatter on IE

shapiroja

Joined: 2005-01-23
Posts: 11
Posted: Sun, 2005-09-18 08:37

Not sure if this has been discussed before (couldn't find anything), but I'm using the GreyMatter colourpack largely with the Matrix Theme and have my Item Frames selected to be Shadow. While this looks quite nice in FF, in IE, the shadow is white.

Example: http://kodos.no-ip.com/gallery/Parent-London/

I'm not in any way a graphics guru, so not sure why this happens or how to fix it.

Any suggestions/advice?

Many thanks.
 
mgeisler

Joined: 2005-09-18
Posts: 23
Posted: Sun, 2005-09-18 10:25

The shadow frame is created using a number of transparent PNG images, but IE cannot handle such PNGs without some extra fiddling around with some MS-only extensions: http://people.brandeis.edu/~peelle/png/.

A solution for you would be to load the PNGs into a photo manipulation program and blend them onto a background of the right color, thereby removing the transparency. I've made a ZIP file with such files: http://mgeisler.net/downloads/shadow.zip

Martin Geisler
http://mgeisler.net/
 
shapiroja

Joined: 2005-01-23
Posts: 11
Posted: Sun, 2005-09-18 13:13

Martin,

I appreciate the links, but not sure I'm enough of a programmer/graphic artist yet to play around with everything. I'll change back to nominal colour scheme and see what I can learn.

Thanks for pointing the way.

J