Making Header transparent "PNG"

Hello Dear friends, I hope you all are doing well. I'd had a really busy and hectic week having soba guests several times and so on. We say "Menomawaru isogashisa" in Japanese literally means; too busy that I feel my eyes are circling". Haha, sorry for my strange translation.

Right now, I'm SO worried about my aunt's physical condition. She has been hospitalized with lung cancer and she had already had a big operation about two years ago. Not so long after her operation, she was beside me when my brother died tragically. I know she tried to help me for my late mother.

Anyway,  I wished to change my header to refresh the mood. And the trouble is my background is not white so that I needed to make it transparent. Wow, I never knew it was such a big challenge!!!  I used the header of other my link pages, which I made with great struggle last year. And arranged it with some free illustrations in word again. Haha, I got stuck there because the back of the part of the illustrations is white... NOT transparant.  I needed to know about the different types of images called "JPG, GIF, PNG".  I will fill you in about this later because I don't really have time now. My main one was put togather by professional, so it was already transparent.  I am afraid of fiddling with template; mine is Ethereal and this is the only way I know how. Too much illustrations p;)

When I showed the new header to my hubby, he asked me where the one with saxophone was p;)   I explained it is in the safe place, haha. It is funny that he always complains that I engage in too much time for blogging.

problem for changing header...

Oh My!!!   I have another problem...

Does any of you have extra headers which have transparent parts?  After late lunch; before visiting my friends' posts, I was trying to make a draft for next post. As my routine process, I tried to check how my header look with the main post by using the test-blog. As you can see from the screen shot below, I found transparent part got black. I realized it when I first opened my choice in the header box of the layout. My guess is the file may not be broken because it has no problem putting the same one in the main post. I just WISH this blogger problem will be a temporary phenomenon and back to normal soon ; what is more, my headers won't be wasted.

In the morning, I worked hard outside in our tiny garden helping my husband tidying up what he did and weeding. Oh, this problem really let me down (*_*)ﾟﾟ  

So sorry posting this before popping over you; and wishing to bounce back from this emotional shock p;)  Also I'm not expecting comments much today; I'd SO appreciate the advice if any of you had by any chance... 

Summer Greetings and bit of rambling,

  Hello friends; I wish to send summer greetings to all of you.

I hope you are coping with the heat well. 

I don't think I am... summer is the season I always get exhausted(^^;)   I feel like hibernating (in summer, haha) inside the house. When I entered junior high, I joinned the tennis club hoping to strengthen my tiny body. Haha, wrong idea!!! I quit 4 months later when summer came; just have a lovely memory with father that he took me to the store to choose my racket and his, played with me sometimes for fun. He understood my quitting the club.

Well, recently he totally is not reacting towards me when I visit him, he used to smile seeing me. After having pneumonia this spring, his condition obviously is getting worse.  One other thing at his place; I feel there used to be a lot  more brighter atmosphere, smiles of the staffs' face and much talking to the old people there. Oh, I understand they have tough job on their shoulders!   Just saddens me a bit. 

*One happy finding♪

Accidentally, I found the way to put the letters in the white backgrounds into picture form for the blog without making them blurry with bluish color. (I use JTrim, I wonder if this soft is available only in Japan as it is written in Japanese)  

I was PRETTY HAPPY for this as I wished to solve the problem for a long time without succeeding it.  Haha, just one thing to know for your problem(^^;)  I've been using this soft for making backgrounds transparent without noticing it!!!  I'm willing to tell you through mail if you need the way how; and also providing you have the soft and don't mind to use the word; mind you, my level is really low p;)

    I hope your summer will be a happy one; I expect mine is going to be busy.

             So, I won't be able to post as frequently as before, hehe.

Browser...

Hello everyone; I hope you are enjoying your new season. I have been SO busy for several personal things...  (haha, skip rambling about personal matter) 

The day before yesterday, I found that many of my 'about me pages' have trouble for transparent setting of the "picture window" template (not Ethereal). For my blog, I'd been using "Google Chrome" not "Internet Explorer".  I happened to open one of them through I.E and found the color trouble like the screen shot below. (Upper one form G.C and lower one from I.E.)  I'm not sure if the cause of the trouble is due to the 'Browser' or 'html'. I couldn't find the solution. As long as I have made them, I decided to keep using them(^^;)  

Silly me learned about difference between browser and search engine this time p;)  

I wonder if what browser you use and had any trouble like this...

SO sorry about my absence for you, my friends.  I will catch up with you later this evening and tomorrow.  My husband is not home, hehe.

Header Transparent Problem Solved♪

I'd been checking the Google+ forum page and one advice had worked.  In the setting page of the Google+, I needed to go to the picture section. And then removed the check-mark in the "automatic enhance" box.  Whew... I was lucky to find that particular forum page. I'm posting this just in case this would help my friends or anyone out there in trouble.  I wasn't the only one p;)

I may not post for several days. And I haven't visited you as much as I wish for this struggle(^^;)   But I will start popping over you from this evening, my friends. 

Big Earthquke Alarm & Giving up one soft program

In Japan, news programs have been picking up this prediction

Experts at Tokyo University estimated that Tokyo had 70% chance of powerful earthquake within four years.  link is here   We had tremendous damage just last year!!!   Research institute at Tokyo University's prediction of huge one may hit in  the capital city really scares us. We had "Great Hanshin earthquake" in1995 and "The Great Kantō earthquake" in1923 left a lot more than 100thousand casualties. I think "enough is enough". (hope that it is a proper phrase here.)

Photoshop Elements

The other day, I downloaded free trial of it and faced with it really eagerly last couple of days. I wished to use it for combining pictures and making transparent images. I bought a book but not much help for me. Well, way over my capacity. Oh, I should have given up earlier(^_^;)  I wasted too much time and seeing me irritated and starting to get tired, hubby was surprised with my persistence and said "Oh, you won't give up!".

Finally, I gave up yesterday.  And better visiting you, my friends...

       

Thanks a lot & Stretching my Ankle

Hi, everyone♫　 I'm SO grateful for your heartwarming comments for my former post♡♡♡  I've consulted with the professional today and he even couldn't figure out why the transparent part turned into black when we upload the file...  It seems I just have to wait until blogger or Google straighten it up.  Well, I'll stop being overly distressed by it. My header of the home-page will be square one for a while, I hope(^^;)  Hoping that you won't experience the same trouble when you wish to change the header.

I resume using or standing on this small health appliance to stretch my ankle, which my husband made a few years ago.  As I don't do any sports, I find it a little help to refresh my body.  Have a wonderful coming weekend☆☆☆

Thank you very much again, wished to express my appreciation♡♡♡　

Pigeons and Sea-gulls;

  Bear me with the several pictures from my popular city park :-)

I visited there around the end of last month.  Loved to see the lady who seems to be the regular visitor and heartwarming that father and daughter feeding pigeons together.

The lady had bagful of bread. funny to see craning its neck; 
The hand in the lower right is my left hand, taking pics with right hand;
Seeing no food in my hand, he flew away immediately p:-)

Bit wider view;  same lady still has pigeons on her hands;

  "Hey, are you coming soon?  If so, make sure with goodies"

 Linking this post to  "Saturday's critters"  "id-rather-b-birdin"
"MosaicMonday",  "Our World Tuesday" and  "Nature Notes"

Thank you very much for stopping by; I always appreciate your sweet visits;

I'll start visiting you tomorrow (15th, Japan time). Busy day with guests :-)   

PS.  I know not many of you can make use of this. 

I had the same issue I had in 2013 (please scroll down).  Header's transparent part got all black (used to be ok).  Resolved just by lowering the brightness level only from 0 to -0.1 with picmonkey.  I tried all I can think of, took me LONG.  Seems like blogger keep nagging me (^^;)