Problems setting transparent color

[GoBonnieGo]

I have a logo on a white background where the logo itself contains white.
Therefore, I can't set the transparent color to white. I have remade the
logo and had the part I want transparent made a different color. Knowing
that there are millions of shades of any color, I've tried really hard to
make it a solid color and used R-0 G-0 B-255. And I've checked with my
drawing program's eye dropper to see how solid it is and except for one or
two pixels near the black outline, it is solid. But no matter what I do,
when I use the "set transparent color" tool in MS's drawing toolbar, I get a
halo of pixels around that remain blue. And this halo is wider than anything
I'm seeing in my drawing program.

Is there something I'm not doing? Is there some other way to do this? Or
it this just an MS glitch?

Bonnie

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Bonnie

This is going to sound like a silly question but when creating the logo why
not set the area you want to be transparent to, well, transparent? In my
experience the 'set transparent colour' is not always reliable.

Lucy

 

[Michele]

Bonnie,

I had the same problem with the 4-H logo and I got around it. All my logos
were green clovers with white H's encased in a white box. Picture tool would
take out the white H's too which was not desired. I created white shapes to
cover the H's, send them to back using arrange, and then regrouped the whole
thing. I got a clear background, clean edge at the end of the clover leaves
and white H's