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This blog started out giving you posts of the songwriter’s notes, lyrics, and music for my original songs. As with many things, it has gone in new directions. So, if you just started reading my post and are interested in my original material, here is a link to "The Right Thing to Do," one of my original songs. You can read about the song’s history, review the lyrics, and listen to the song. If you want to add the song to your playlist, you can download it at Amazon or iTunes.

On Thursday, 1/7, Fred and Alex Vine will be our performers in the “Side room” at Buffalo Bill’s. They will be presenting their original material. I hope Fred’s impressive bio entices you to come to their show!

“As a singer and guitar player, Fred Vine is a familiar name at coffeehouses, festivals and clubs throughout upstate New York. He is a native of Rochester, NY.

Fred is primarily a folk blues player. His finger-picking and bottleneck slide blues are expressive
and accomplished. His musical tastes are eclectic. Using a traditional finger-style technique, he expands his repertoire to include dazzling arrangements of jazz, ragtime, original and contemporary songs.

Fred has the talent and open-mindedness to be flexible with whatever audience he is working with… "Really what I do is go in and make sure that everybody has a good time".

Fred fell in love with the guitar when he first picked it up at age twelve. With the sound of the Beatles in his head, he began teaching himself by ear. Later in his career, Fred studied jazz with renowned Rochester guitarist Dick Longale. He also broadened his knowledge by taking Music Theory at the Hochstein School of Music.

Among his many influences are Rev. Gary Davis, Robert Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, Chet Atkins and Duke Ellington. As an electric guitar player in rhythm and blues bands during the 70's, Fred had the opportunity to share the stage with legendary performers including Muddy Waters. Recently as a solo act he has shared the stage with John Hammond, Dave Van Ronk and Guy Davis at the 12 Corners Coffeehouse. Fred's passion for the music inspired him to research it. He developed "The History of Blues and Jazz," a presentation designed for continuing education. He also teaches guitar.

Fred has recorded two CD's. "Mister Freddie Blues" is a collection of solo acoustic blues and jazz including two live tracks from a 12 Corners Coffeehouse performance. "Cruising on the Belle" is a mixed bag of folk songs he plays on board the tour boat "The Colonial Belle" on The Erie Canal. His music can be heard on theWITR (89.7 FM in Rochester) radio show "Bad Dog Blues.”

For this show, Fred will be joined by his son, Alex, an up and coming singer/songwriter and guitar player.

Here is a video of Fred playing one of his songs, “Who’s Who of the Blues.”
To learn more about Fred, click here. Hope you can join us for the show!

The concert is free, but we do ask for donations to support our performers. Siobhan has created three CDs, one for each of our three seasons. Each CD contains songs of the performers who appeared during that season. The requested donation for each CD is $10, and the proceeds go to the performers who are playing on the night of the donation. The CDs have gotten good reviews, and we hope they get passed around to let others know about the great talent we have appearing at this venue.

The concerts take place on the first and third Thursdays of every month in the side room of Buffalo Bill’s Family Restaurant and Taproom, 19 Main Street, Shortsville, NY. The show runs from 7 to 9 PM. To learn more about Buffalo Bill’s, check out their site right here:
Buffalo Bill’s Family Restaurant and Taproom

Here is a link to videos of performers playing in the Side Room. The videos will give you a feel of how much fun we have at each show. Check them out!

Hope you can join us on January 7!
All the best,

Siobhan and Frank

Upcoming Shows:

Eva and the Dog Boys (Elaine Verstraete, Tom (T-Bone) Farley John Denniston), January 21
John Carter, February 4
The Maria Gillard Trio (Maria Gillard, Elaine Verstraete, Perry Cleaveland), February 18
Brian Ayers, March 3
Joe Dady of the Dady Brothers and Perry Cleaveland, April 7
The Stid Hill Stompers (Jack Jones, Kendall Paul Wilt, Fran Cary), April 21
Scott Regan, May 5
Jeff Riales, May 19
The Healing Committee (Alan Whitney, Tim Pitcher, Cathryn Koch), June 2
Connie Deming, June 16
Lisa Winter, July 7
The Michael Yacci Trio (Mike Yacci, Paul Yacci, and Bryan Maslin), July 21
Eddie Lee and Closing Time, August 4
Steve Piper, August 18
Leslie Lee and Steve Gretz and Perry Cleaveland, September 1
Paulsen and Baker Band (John Paulsen, Keith Baker, and Tim Chaapel), September 15
Paul Swiatek and Perry Cleaveland, October 6
Tom Whitmore of Watkins and the Rapiers, October 20
The Cadleys, November 3
John Dady of the Dady Brothers, November 17
Kerry Regan, December 1
Gordon Munding, December 15

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Clearly Impossible?

I’ve been pounding my brain against a problem in Photoshop CS for the last few months—no, not continuously—and I’ve given up.  Now I turn to the PSD experts in the crowd for help.

What I want to do seems simple enough.  The goal here is to have a PNG where the alpha channel coincides precisely with a visible pieces of the image.  In other words, if the visible image is a large black diamond, then I want the alpha channel to be in the same shape and intensity as the diamond.  That way, in IE/Win, there will be a big black diamond.  In other, more capable browsers, there will be a transparent diamond with a white mask, so I can set whatever background color I want.

Here are two images that, I hope, illustrate what I’m aiming to do.  The first image is what IE/Win would render, and the second is a representation of what another browser would render (the gray checkerboard pattern representing the transparent parts of the PNG).

I’ve fiddled with combinations of masks, layers, alpha channels, and more until my head feels ready to explode.  No matter what I do, I can get either an image that’s opaque (read: no alpha channel) in all browsers, or an image with a full alpha channel, where the alpha portion is filled with a light silver-gray in IE/Win.

It seems like there has to be a way to do this, and that someone out there knows what it is.  So how in the name of the sweet Virgin Mary do I get this to work?

Update: I sense that people aren’t getting what I want to do.  What I effectively want to do is take an image of the diamond—a GIF, a TIFF, whatever—and, in turning it into a PNG, add an alpha channel such that the diamond gets “knocked out” in programs that understand the alpha channel.  In those that don’t, like IE/Win, the regular image should just appear, with no alpha-channel effects.  Just the black diamond.

And I want to know how to do it in Photoshop, which is the tool I use.  Telling me how to do it in GIMP would be incredibly useful if I hadn’t thoroughly hated GIMP’s UI, and thus uninstalled it about ten minutes after installing it, back when I did.  (To be fair, it might have been the X11 UI that I hated, but since GIMP was the only X11 application I’ve run… you see where I’m headed with that, I hope.)

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    • #1
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Lachlan Hunt wrote in to say...

    I believe the issue is really all to do with IE’s broken PNG implementation, there is nothing you can do with the image to get it to change the way it’s rendered in IE.

    The only choice you have is to use the IE PNG hack in the page (like you used in S5) so that it renders it transparently, or use content negotiation to serve a transparent PNG to descent browsers and a GIF to IE. (IE includes image/gif, but not image/png in its accept headers, so any descent content negotiation system will do that. e.g. Apache Multiviews)

    • #2
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Sebastian Redl wrote in to say...

    I’m not quite sure what your issue is. Your problem seems to be that the wrong background colour is saved in the PNG (silver-grey instead of black), causing IE to show that silver-grey, while other browsers correctly display transparency. Is that it?
    If so, choosing black as the background colour before exporting the image in PS should suffice.
    In other words, this image:
    should work. But since I’m running Linux right now, I can’t test in IE. (It is transparent in Firefox.) I also can’t tell you exactly how to do that in PS, as I did it in the Gimp 2.2.

    • #3
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Screwtape wrote in to say...

    I don’t know about Photoshop, but I just did it in about five minutes with the GIMP:

    * Create a new image, RGB.
    * Right-click on the background layer, “Add alpha to layer”.
    * Use the Eraser tool to draw a diamond shape.
    * Set the background colour (you know the overlapping-rectangles foreground/background colour widget) to black.
    * File -> Save as PNG.
    * In the PNG Options dialog that appears, I made sure “Interlacing” and “Save background color” were ticked, and everything else was unticked.
    * Create test HTML page with the CSS rule body { background: red; } and an <img> tag that points to the PNG I just saved.
    * Presto! All done!

    • #4
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
    • 1949
    hemebond wrote in to say...

    Hmm. I don’t know about Photoshop, but Gimp lets you save the background colour which shows up in the transparent area in Internet Explorer. I’ll keep trying in Photoshop.

    • #5
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    ant wrote in to say...

    The simplest explanation I can come up with:

    IE composites alpha PNGs onto a solid background colour, which is usually grey but it’ll use the PNG’s bKGD chunk if there is one.

    • #6
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Anthony wrote in to say...

    Interesting predicament. It seems like Photoshop will only consider layer transparency when making the PNG, not giving you the option to just pick an Alpha Channel to use for that transparency instead. (Which is lame because layer transparency is really just an alpha channel hidden from the user.) You should theoretically be able to have anything in your image data and anything in the alpha channel when making the PNG. Maybe there is a third-party plugin or software that lets you do it.

    • #7
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Steve Clay wrote in to say...

    Start with your image in a layer. Delete the background layer if it exists. Make a layer of all white beneath the image. Select the image layer and use Select: Color range… Click on the black and pull the fuzziness all the way to the right. Click OK. Now select the all-white layer and hit delete. Now delete the image layer. It seems the only way to save variable opacity is via File: Save as.. and it saves as a 24-bit PNG. When I view this in IEwin, the middle isn’t black, it’s a light blue… One of my system colors? Macromedia needs to hook you up with Fireworks for better alpha PNGs. ;)

    • #8
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Anthony wrote in to say...

    p.s. I just tried it in piece of high-end compositing software that would actually let me take a a version of your diamond file and with no transparency and set up an alpha channel which would be the only place it could get it’s transparency. I exported the PNG from there and when I open in PS the black color information in the RGB channels is gone. It might be something about the PNG spec that make apps write it this way. (Though after seeing the “light silver-gray” effect in IE, I wonder if this isn’t more about how IE is handling it, since it’s actually not really ignoring the alpha, which is what you were hoping for I think. If it were, I don’t know what would be there since there is no color information in RGB, but it does see the diamond somehow.)

    • #9
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Anonymous Coward wrote in to say...

    Anthony may be right. From the spec:

    The alpha channel can be regarded either as a mask that temporarily hides transparent parts of the image, or as a means for constructing a non-rectangular image. In the first case, the colour values of fully transparent pixels should be preserved for future use. In the second case, the transparent pixels carry no useful data and are simply there to fill out the rectangular image area required by PNG. In this case, fully transparent pixels should all be assigned the same colour value for best compression.

    Maybe Photoshop just assumes the second case. Though we can’t know for sure unless somebody tries to directly read off the different channels in the file.

    • #10
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    hemebond wrote in to say...

    There doesn’t seem to be any way to add a bKGD in Photoshop. Photoshops PNG support has always lacked apparently.

    • #11
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    another anonymous coward wrote in to say...

    Look at the tabbed navigation at the top of this page: – those are transparent png’s with a slight alpha gradient applied – with a css background-color swapped out on hover (same image). Is that what you’re trying to achieve?

    • #12
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    Anthony wrote in to say...

    May be some clues here. I’m not sure. :-)

    Might also be working looking at the Photoshop SDK if it has info on how Save As PNG works, I don’t know. Just a guess.

    • #13
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    • Thu 1 Sep 2005
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    John wrote in to say...

    I thought I’d be clever and try this out in CS2 and ImageReady, but yeah, Photoshop does not seem to have good PNG support. SuperPNG, a plugin for Photoshop, also does not seem to directly support what you want, but I have yet to test it.

    • #14
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Anonymous Coward from comment #9 wrote in to say...

    Well, I guess I was wrong, I don’t think it’s Photoshop’s fault after all. Looking at how IE renders images with varying transparency like the W3C PNG test and the image used here, it’s clear that IE first composites the PNG onto a grey background, then displays the whole thing as an opaque image. Serves me right for shooting my mouth off without knowing enough about the subject.

    However, there is a solution, though you can’t do it in Photoshop. If you use an 8-bit paletted RGBA image, IE renders only those parts which are 100% opaque, and anything below 100% opacity become transparent. Which will work for your diamond image, and you’ll be able to switch its colours in IE as well. Fireworks can do this, or you can use pngquant to postprocess your PNGs. For an example, look at these toucans in IE and a better browser.

    A disadvantage is that you have to reduce your colour space to 256 colours. In IE, that makes it exactly like a GIF. Oh wait, why aren’t you doing this with a GIF in the first place?

    • #15
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Jonathan Stanley wrote in to say...

    “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”

    • #16
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Jonathan Stanley wrote in to say...

    “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”

    IE6</Win can cope fine with 8bit paletted PNGs with a single colour set as transparent, which apart from fileformat are the same as transparent GIFs.

    Using the full 32bit RBGA PNGs, IE6</Win will attempt to make sense of the alpha channel (and failing), hence that nasty semi-transparent blue-grey mess.

    So the solution would be to use an 8bit paletted PNGs and all browsers will get the nice transparent effect (assuming you don’t care for alpha-transition on possibly anti-aliased bits) or use two images, send IE6</Win the opaque one which has the black diamond and 32bit RBGA PNG capable browsers (includes IE7/Win) get the fancy PNG with full 8bit transparency.

    *Oops, forgot to entitise stuff and having WP eat my post, bleh.

    • #17
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Mitz Pettel wrote in to say...

    Here’s what I did in Photoshop 7.0:

    1. Open png-base.png
    2. Choose Layer > New > Layer From Background, make sure mode is Normal and opacity is 100% and click OK
    3. Choose Layer > Add Layer Mask > Reveal All
    4. Choose Image > Apply Image, select Source: png-base.png, Layer: Layer 0, Channel: RGB; note that the Target is png-base.png (Layer 0, Layer Mask); Blending: Normal, Opacity: 100%, and click OK
    5. Choose File > Save As…, Format: PNG; Note that it will save as a copy since layers cannot be saved (but transparency will be saved!); Type a name and click Save.

    I’m sure it can easily be turned into a Photoshop (or perhaps ImageReady) action.

    Note only that since your original is antialiased, some of the black fringe will show around the transparent hole in browsers that support transparency.

    • #18
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 0521
    Maniac wrote in to say...

    I think such an image won’t help you. Even if you get pixels that are ‘black but fully transparent’ IE won’t draw them black. It would work if IE just ignored transparency but it tries to use and does it wrong. Odds are hight that instead of black you’ll get some dirty brown-ish color.

    But it’s just me guess, I don’t have WinIE by hand to check it.

    BTW. For simple images you can save PNG in indexed format with 256 colors. IE seems to understand transparency in indexed PNG’s, it’s TrueColor that drives it mad.

    • #19
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Jan Eichhorn wrote in to say...

    – open image
    – copy the whole image, go to channels and paste as alpha channel (create a new channel and paste)
    – if needed Strg+Klick on that Alpha-Channel to make selection, get back to layers and use Layer > Add Layer Mask > Reveal selection to apply this Alpha-Channel as a Layer Mask

    • #20
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 0849
    Mircea Botez wrote in to say...

    If you don’t like the Gimp UI (and many of us don’t) you might want to give GIMPShop a try.
    It’s a Gimp hack to make the menus, toolbars, layout just like in Photoshop. Download and screenshots at the link above.
    (a bit offtopic, but since someone pasted a solution for Gimp…)

    • #21
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 0926
    Olly wrote in to say...

    I know what you’re trying to do. You want the image to show a black diamond in IE and an anti-aliased transparent background in good browsers, right?

    IIRC, I have read that the grey that IE uses is a colour set somewhere in the PNG file. Unfortunately, I don’t think Photoshop can set this colour, but some other software can. Hold on…

    And a bog of googling got me here which leads on to here. Works as a PS plugin apparently.

    • #22
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 0928
    Olly wrote in to say...

    Or indeed TweakPNG – look for the KBGD setting of your PNG file.

    • #23
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 0952
    John West wrote in to say...

    I think you really are attempting the impossible. Photoshop can easily give you a .PNG with an alpha channel, but if I understand correctly you then want IE to ignore it and show the image as if it didn’t have one. Photoshop/GIMP/anything else can’t change the IE behavior in that way.

    • #24
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Anonymous Coward from comment #9 wrote in to say...

    Ah, TweakPNG works! You have to Insert > bKGD to set the colour, and then IE uses that as the background instead of grey.

    I believe Olly’s found the perfect solution.

    • #25
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    David wrote in to say...

    I took your image and made it a mask in Macromedia Fireworks MX. It appears to work, please somebody let me know if the IE silver/grey bug is affecting these images:

    • #26
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Will Rickards wrote in to say...

    The tweakpng and bKGD thing has been on this page for a while.
    (Not my page just was in my bookmarks)

    • #27
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 1355
    E, Lass wrote in to say...

    David, your PNG comes up gray in IE6 SP2.

    • #28
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
    • 1449
    Josh Peters wrote in to say...

    Hi Eric, I think I’ve figured out a solution to your problem. After reading some of the comments and seeing the problem was that Photoshop doesn’t set the bkgd chunk up, I downloaded TweakPNG ( and used it to set the bkgd chunk up on a png I created in photoshop. The effect is a black diamond in IE, and transparency in other browsers. Here’s the file

    • #29
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    • Fri 2 Sep 2005
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    Mike Dougherty wrote in to say...

    Are you ignoring IE’s filter on general principle?

    We’re using PNG files for the verses on our cards, which can be imprinted in various colors – that way we don’t have to create/maintain a separate file for every color a verse may be printed in. The IE filter has it’s own problems, but at least you get the desired effect.

    • #30
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    • Wed 7 Sep 2005
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    Kevin Goldman wrote in to say...

    I’ve run into the same problem on this project that relied on alpha PNGs. The end result is that IE will correctly (correctly as it can : ) and fully drop out any pixel that has an alpha as if it were a transparent GIF, while Firefox and others that support alpha pngs will display the alpha.

    The solution could not be created in Photoshop. As far as I know, this is a known limitation of Photoshop PNGs. I had to create the PNG files in Fireworks.

    Note that getting the vertical background tiles to be seamless is much harder when working with so many variables. Variables include: (a) seamless alpha tile (b) seamless IE tile and (c) seamless color tile.

    As part of this process I’ve realized Fireworks produced slightly smaller images that look better than Photoshop”s (Image Ready”s) “save as web”. I tend to use Fireworks more often now for slicing images.

    Giving credit where due : ) this article helped get me on the right track.

    If you really want check out the details on this project”s random switching of the background images on each page and the Mambo CMS integration written by Graham Spice, the developer responsible for the project.

    • #31
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    • Sun 11 Sep 2005
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    Ian Dunlop wrote in to say...

    Was searching the web looking for a solution to my alpha issue. Noticed that you have a problem. I apologize if this does not help, didn’t have time to read everything fully. However…

    I think it’s best to split your problem into two parts – what PS is doing PNG wise and viewing it on the web. I recently solved the PS png/alpha problem.

    Do a Save As Web. Select PNG over on the right, pick a reasonable number of colors. On the bottom right select the palette entries (one at a time) that you want to be transparent and using the little -> right arrow menu pop up – toggle it’s status between transparent or not.

    This will give you explicit control over what palette index is transparent or opaque.

    This will at the very least give you a correct PNG with transparency. The web, that’s another problem…

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    • Mon 12 Sep 2005
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    Dub Dublin wrote in to say...

    I haven’t tried these Photoshop directions (, but I have used the analogous Corel/JASC PaintShopPro instructions, and they work great for creating alpha-blended images. As you’ve discovered, this can be quite tricky, especially since almost every application I’ve tried has significant quirks in the way it handles alpha transparency, including frequent inconsistencies even within a single program. Generally, alpha support is only partial, regardless of what you might otherwise think.

    Give it a try and let me know how it works…

    • #33
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    • Tue 13 Sep 2005
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    Michael Chang wrote in to say...

    This is currently impossible with GIMP, because it doesn’t save the correect chunk. What you need is a "tRNS" chunk to be saved set to the colour of your bullet — GIMP doesn’t do this at the moment. Reference: thread "PNG binary transparency"; gimp-user, thread, aproximately dated September 12-13, 2005.

    A suggested workaround is to use ImageMagicK to set the tRNS chunk, after making the bullet in GIMP. However, you shouldn’t even be taking advantage of this bug in MSIE’s implementation of the PNG format — just use regular transparency (which is possible in GIMP).

    • #34
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    • Wed 14 Sep 2005
    • 2033
    Laurens Holst wrote in to say...

    Ah, tweakpng and bKGD is really nice! Now the logo on my website blends in better with the background in IE :).

    So far, I”ve been using 8-bit paletted PNGs with one fully transparent colour (like GIF, but then a smaller and better format) (in Fireworks: export to 8-bit PNG with exact colours and alpha), which works nicely as well.

    • #35
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    • Wed 14 Sep 2005
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    Laurens Holst wrote in to say...

    Eric: I think what you want to do is for that image, to set bKGD to black (using TweakPNG).

    • #36
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    • Sat 17 Sep 2005
    • 0935
    Wesley Mason wrote in to say...

    You could just use the IE specific alpha channel filter for PNG’s in your CSS, but filter it out for other clients so the CSS is still standard. It’s a server side hack but it’ll work in everything.

    • #37
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    • Mon 19 Sep 2005
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    Nan Liu wrote in to say...

    GIMP with Photoshop UI:

    • #38
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    • Wed 21 Sep 2005
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    shorty114 wrote in to say...

    If you didn’t like GIMP’s interface, you might want to try gimpShop. GIMP, but with PhotoShop menu setup and such.

    If you mean the looks of the X11, then if you have a Mac, Apple’s X11 isn’t too bad looking.

    • #39
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    • Thu 24 Aug 2006
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    Nick wrote in to say...

    There are also two photshop plugins I know of that let you set the bkgd color value:

    pngout –
    web image guru –

    Sadly, both cost $

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    • Mon 15 Dec 2008
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    Casey wrote in to say...

    I see that in IE6 — but I use the basic trick to force IE6 to render pngs properly. Which works just fine on Windows xp with IE6.

    The same graphic in IE7 (Vista) renders first with a black fringe before the htc behavior kicks in and fixes everything. While it does fix things, it’s ugly as sin when you are using something like jquery to fade things in and out (jquery’s fadeIn, fadeOut effects)

    It seems to happen even if I make the png graphic in Fireworks, although that may also be a factor of the “improvements” to both Photoshop and Fireworks from our friends at Adobe in CS4. I just recently installed the Master Collection CS4 on my (ew) Vista desktop and have started using it there.

    Fireworks has always let you set the background or matte of a 32bit png export but adjusting that doesn’t seem to (now) have any effect.

    I’m eager to find this answer, too.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sally Kellerman in Studio City June 5

SALLY KELLERMAN, the Academy Awardâ and Golden Globeâ nominated celebrated actress, voiceover virtuoso and singer, returns to Vitello’s Jazz and Supper Club for “SALLY KELLERMAN LIVE!,” an evening of intimate and laid back music and conversation presented in her own inimitable style, backed The Andy Langham Trio.
WHAT:          Kellerman’s program will include some new takes on familiar songs.
WHERE:       Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club; Vitello’s Restaurant; 4349 Tujunga Avenue; Studio City, CA  91604.
WHEN:          Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.

HOW:             Tickets for “SALLY KELLERMAN LIVE!” are $15 each; there is also a $13 Food/Drink Minimum. The show begins at 8:00 p.m.  Dinner Seating is available starting at 7:00 p.m. Valet Parking is available.  Reservations may be made by calling 818-769-0905 or online at  For further information, please visit  For further information about Sally Kellerman, please visit

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How the Media Fabricated Bannon's "Fascist" Connection

According to the New York Times, Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon admires radical Italian philosopher Julius Evola. An examination of Bannon's statements shows the opposite

Fake Fascist connection. Trump and Bannon

The ground is shaking as the result of Jason Horowitz’s “scoop”. The very embodiment of the daring investigative reporter, Horowitz has exposed the true face of the Trump administration: Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, cited the radical Italian thinker Julius Evola, who was admired by Mussolini and felt close to the Nazi SS.

This revelation obviously made many waves, and many liberal and progressive media outlets gleefully published the scoop. The progressive website Raw Story ran the headline: "Meet the scary Italian fascist thinker approvingly cited by Steve Bannon." The Forward went even further with: "Meet The Philosopher Who’s A Favorite of Steve Bannon and Mussolini." The English edition of Haaretz proclaimed breathlessly: "Steve Bannon Cited WWII-era Nazi Writer as Ideological Influence."

The questions that beg to be answered are: Who is Julius Evola, and why haven’t we heard of him?

Well, Evola was a particularly extreme thinker: He was a racist and utterly anti-democratic, and, to a certain extent his writings did inspire the atrocities Mussolini committed in the last stages of his rule. Evola promoted a complex and contradiction-riven philosophy that rejected capitalist-democratic modernity and replaced it with an imagined past—usually, the pagan one prior to "Christian corruption." This thinking enjoyed some attention in its time and has, thankfully, been forgotten, aside from radical circles in the extreme right and left.

(It's worth noting that despite Evola’s relationship with Mussolini and his affinity for the Nazi SS, he was acquitted in his post-war trial, claiming that he was "merely an anti-democratic philosopher, much like Plato.") Evola died in 1974, noted as "a figure with broad fame in limited circles." Exit Signor Evola.

Enter Steven Bannon, whom the media has crowned Trump's "grey cardinal." Mr. Bannon is very relevant to our lives, and any link to Evola should be disturbing; except for the fact that he never alluded to Evola in his prepared remarks. The New York Times headline is deceptive, and every media outlet that followed its lead was fooled. These sensationalist articles contradict the very raw material made public by Buzzfeed, even while referencing it. The Buzzfeed article contains an unedited transcript of a speech Bannon gave via Skype to a Vatican conference in 2014. The conference covered "human dignity" and the consequences of economic order. In that speech, Bannon supported "enlightened capitalism," and condemned two dangerous deviations: "kleptocracy," a political-economic order in which capitalist corporations merge with the higher echelons of the state bureaucracy to get rich at the expense of the impoverished worker, and unrestrained libertarianism, which in his opinion objectifies humanity. The speech itself made no mention of Evola. Repeat. The speech never mentioned Evola.

When did his name come up? In the question and answer stage, when Bannon was asked about his attitude towards Putin's Russia. His oral answer was, and I quote, "When Vladimir Putin, when you really look at some of the underpinnings of some of his beliefs today, a lot of those come from what I call Eurasianism; he’s got an adviser who harkens back to Julius Evola and different writers of the early 20th century who are really the supporters of what’s called the traditionalist movement, which really eventually metastasized into Italian fascism."

In other words, Bannon said that Putin is influenced by an advisor — who is easily identified as Alexander Dugin — who, in turn, is influenced by Evola, among others. That's it, that's the only mention of Evola. But perhaps, you'll say, Bannon supports Putin and Dugin and Evola's ideology? After all, we're told that Trump admires Putin, so Bannon must feel the same way. Well, later in the lecture, Bannon summarizes exactly what he thinks about Putin, his regime, and his goals:

"You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of. Because at the end of the day, I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy….." This is the same kleptocracy which Bannon rejected in his speech! In other words, the lead writers, reporters, and their editors got it wrong.

The focus of this exercise is neither Trump nor Bannon, but the enlightened camp represented by the New York Times. If one wants to know why the American public, like other groups in the western world, have lost their faith in the establishment media, we have a very good example right here.

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  1. Spot on. Brilliant article! Here is a great look into Bannon's real opnions:

    " "… the workingman was betrayed by the establishment, …
    … we're going to build an entirely new political movement," he says. "It's everything related to jobs"
    it is not just the liberal establishment that Bannon feels he has triumphed over, but the conservative one too … … you have quite a complex court that Bannon will have to finesse to realize his reign of the workingman and a trillion dollars in new spending."


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Monday, November 21, 2011

Newfie Mitts Pattern

Here is a pattern for Newfie Mitts!

Needles: double pointed 3.25mm   Yarn: worsted weight yarn (two colours)

***Always make sure to place the yarn you aren't knitting with behind the yarn you are knitting with to avoid a random string going over your pattern!***

- You may want to add another row for larger hands before you place the thumb!

Cast on 42 stitches, 3 needles for cuffs, Knit 1, Purl l for 3" cuffs.
A= wrist color. B =contrast color

After 3", purl 1 row. Next purl row increase 2 st. on each needle (48 stitches)

PATTERN 1 : Knit 4 st. of color B. Slip 2 st. of color A from behind. Repeat for 5 rounds in all. Purl 2 rounds in colour A.

PATTERN 2: Knit 1 of B. Slip 2 sts. of A (Knit 4 B, Slip 2 sts. of A)**Continue these in brackets to finish row. These make one row and do this again 4 more times to make 5 rows. Purl 2 rounds in colour A.

Knit pattern 1
Knit pattern 2

When you start your next purl row, purl 2 sts. and take 8 sts. off. Put on a pin for thumb, and then cast on 8 stitches.

Make 7 more patterns ending with 2 purl rounds. Narrow off with A color, same as the wrist.

Knit 1 row. Next row, knit 4, knit 2 tog. around all needles.
Knit 1 row
Knit 3, knit 2 tog all around - knit 2 rows
Knit 2, knit 2 tog all around - knit 1 row
Knit 1, Knit 2 tog all around - knit 1 row

Knit 2 tog all around *
Draw yarn through remaining sts

*(on my last pair I knit an extra round and then Knit 2 tog all around)

THUMB; Pick up 4 stitches on one needle, 4 on another needle and the 8 sts. off holder. Knit 1 row then divide the sts evenly on the needles. Knit desired length. Knit 1, knit 2 tog. Knit 1 row.
knit 1, knit 2 tog. Draw the yarn through the remaining stitches and darn in ends.

BABY MITTENS; 30 sts. add 2 more on each needle
after finishing the cuff and you start to purl.
Pattern the same. Take off 6 sts. for the thumb
(instead of 8) Use 6 picked up for the thumb, make 3 or 4 patterns Narrow same way.


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Friday, September 11, 2009

Grade 4, Lesson 3, Day 4 ~ Finally Friday

It's amazing how long a short week can feel. I am so ready for the weekend.

We played post office this morning. All week the boys have been making post cards as their project for Stuart Little. The drew pictures on one side of a 4X6 piece of card stock and wrote a short note on the other side. To prepare for this I cut the cards, made a vertical line on one side dividing the card into a 2/3 side and a 1/3 side, and wrote "To: The Little Family, From: Stuart" and also "Post Card" in the smaller area.

This project went over better with T-Guy than with J-Baby; J-Baby hates being given rules and the point of the project was for him to come up with several things that Stuart did or saw. He said the Little family already knew what Stuart had done and the project was pointless. That's J-Baby, but he did the work and today he is being reward with rubber stamps.

When I chose the post card project I knew that we would "stamp" and "mail" them using my old collection of postage rubber stamps; I wanted to do something fun that would make the post cards seem more real. Each boy put a "stamp" on his cards and put them in an "outgoing" box on his brother's shelf. They then added postmarks and cancellation to those cards and delivered them to a different box. They had a blast!

We taped the post cards into the boys' main lesson books in a way that allows them to be flipped up to see the other side. The boys wrote the title Stuart Little Project and are decorating the pages with background color and small drawings. I know they are going to be very proud to show their books to Papa and Abuela.

The boys had completed all of the lesson 3 worksheets in the Oak Meadow math book so I pulled down our Miquon Math Lab workbooks and tore out a whole section on telling time and put those in the workboxes for them. I can see that having the Miquon is going to be good for practice and review and I am glad I didn't sell it. The Lab Sheet Annotations has a handy chart that shows me which pages in each workbook address various skills.

We did our science main lesson today; language arts took a lot of time this week! The boys have been observing again and they drew pictures of natural objects they found. We also used the computer to look at things that we just can't find where we live, such as a geodesic dome. Oh, and my friend gave us some natural honeycomb from a wild hive so we got to look at the hexagonal pattern.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Wearing Fall

Guys, I'm obsessed.

We recently decided to start offering more handmade pieces.. these are just the beginning!
They were introduced last week, and have been so popular!
We cannot believe the love and support from you guys.
Keep it up ;)

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Thanks for participating, we welcome your sugar but you can keep the spice! ;)


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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Book Review: 'Seven Dead Pirates' by Linda Bailey

✰✰✰½ Lewis Dearborn is a shy young boy. Like many kids, he dreads going to school. When his family inherits a rundown seaside mansion, all his mother can do is make quick plans to sell it. Lewis, on the other hand, is in for the adventure of a lifetime. When Lewis quickly claims the tower room for his bedroom, he learns that it comes complete with ghosts. And not just one or two ghosts, but seven in all!

Seven pirate ghosts can be a little bit overwhelming until you get used to them. While Lewis' days are filled with school bullies and not being able to speak up for himself, Lewis' nights are filled with ghostly parties and fun. It isn't long before the pirate ghosts ask Lewis for help; they wish to return to the Maria Louisa, their long-lost ship. With the help of a peculiar classmate, Abriella, Lewis embarks on a mission to help the pirates out. Will he be able to find the courage to complete the task, or will he chicken out? Only time will tell, but Lewis better hurry up before another group of rowdy ghost pirates take up residence on the Maria Louisa.

The Bottom Line: This ghost story for middle grade readers is an adventurous tale of friendship and acceptance. Author Linda Bailey teaches us that it's perfectly okay to be different. Despite the slow beginning, the tale steadily picks up speed and finishes with an adventurous splash.

Details: Seven Dead Pirates by Linda Bailey. Hardcover published by Tundra Books in 2015. 304 p. ISBN: 9781770498150 NOTE: I received a free advance reading copy from Tundra Books in exchange for an honest review. This was made possible via the Early Reviewers program at LibraryThing.