The dev version for drupal7 has an option for selecting the color of a background for a crop.
We'd like to set the background to transparent.
When we enter 'transparent' in this field, the background is black.
#transparent is the result.
Should this work?
Am I doing this incorrectly?
Is this a feature that was lost in the upgrade?

Thanks in advance for any comments.
peace,
michael

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fietserwin
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Crop is not an effect provided by the imagecache_actions module but by Drupal core (as id Scale and crop). Moreover crop does not have a background color field as, apparently, it is assumed that it will only make the canvas smaller.

So what effect do you mean?

BTW: For some effects, leaving the color/HEX field empty will be interpreted as transparent.

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dman commented
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It was also intended that RGBA values would be supported in color selectors.
eg #000000FF is transparent white, and you can define a canvas with that.

As ever, convert to PNG if you want that to turn up in the result.

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dman commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (works as designed)

Only for the imagecache actions side - not for core crop (though define_canvas also will crop as a side-effect)

We could probably add that to the docs there.

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shaneonabike commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Closed (fixed)

I don't think I understand fully... I tried something to the effect you suggested but still get a black background in one area. I tried by setting the background to transparent to start, but it still ends up with a black section. Here's what I used... am I totally wrong here??

* Define canvas left:2 right:2 top:2 bottom:2 Transparent under image
* Change file format Convert to: png
* Scale width 991
* Crop 991x398