Handling of transparancy by SmugMug

TheBubbleBoy

>Earlier post was moved, so I changed to a more vague subject title as it does belong here

I have a bunch of PNGs with transparency. I want to put thumbnails of those on my website using WP-SmugMug (WordPress plugin).

The plugin requests the JPGs, which is great as it saves bandwidth. Since JPG doesn't support transparency, a white background is added by SmugMug in the PNG->JPG conversion. Unfortunately white is usually not a good background color, is there anyway I can change the background color that SmugMug's PNG->JPG convertor uses?

Maybe in the control panel or by specifying it as an option to the image web links (e.g. "sfgdsfds-X1.jpg?transparancy=#444").

Andy

I don't understand the question or the issue, I'm sorry

TheBubbleBoy

Andy wrote:

I don't understand the question or the issue, I'm sorry

Okay , an example :

On my blog the following image-link is used :
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.jpg

Note that I request a custom size ('325x325' instead of 'M') in which case you can link to either a JPG, or a PNG by using the proper extension. The standard sizes (Th, S, M, L, etc.) always link to a PNG if the original is a PNG, even if you use a JPG extension. Both links below return a PNG image (check the image description in the title if you use Firefox):
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-M.jpg
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-M.png

while these links with a custom size return a JPG and a PNG image:
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.jpg
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.png

But that is not my issue, just a bit inconsistent



Anyway, the used image-link (http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.jpg) shows a JPG image with the transparent parts replaced by black. So the SmugMug PNG->JPG convertor uses black as background color.
The downscaled PNG image can be seen here: http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.png. It still has the transparent parts.

My question is: how can I change the color that SmugMug uses to fill in the transparent parts (the background color) which in this case is black. Is there someway I can change that background color? In the control panel or by using a link such as:
http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325.jpg?background=#FFF or http://bubbleboy-studios.smugmug.com/photos/491203072_MkTqs-325x325-background#FFF.jpg ?

I hope that is more clear :ivar

TheBubbleBoy

Maybe still not clear..?

Andy

Sorry, there's not a way to change the background color, I wish there was!