Applying opacity to a jpeg

[Anonymous]

Is there any way you can you set a opacity to a jpeg in Archicad?

I am trying to create elevations for presentation, and need to add "realistic" trees in order to indicate context, but then the elevation itself starts getting lost, and I am very much trying to avoid having to take these elevations in to photoshop.

[Laszlo Nagy]

There is one place for JPG Transparency. When you place an image file with the Figure Tool, in its Settings Dialog you can check the Transparent checkbox. In this case all pixels in the image that are completely white will become transparent and you can see elements under or beyond them.
But this is a ON/OFF type of thing, so it will not work if you want something that sets opacity by a slider between 0 and 100%.

[Anonymous]

So I will have to export and take it to photoshop then.
Thank you for your help and quick response! Appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

my dream that archicad can do this one day ... version after version, and nothing ...

[alemanda]

Try to put a percentage fill over it playing with foreground color.

[Anonymous]

This does not give transparency , because I need to see what 's behind ... For example , a PNG tree on a elevation, need to see the building that have behind ... or a tree on a flor plan, need to see the road/paving that have behind...
Perhaps in ArchiCAD version 5000 will have this feature...

Thanks

[alemanda]

Sorry I misunderstood.

I think it's not possible to have in archicad the opacity you want to get ...

[Bobby_ja_tt]

have you tried importing your image onto a work sheet then displaying it as a reference and using the opacity option there?

[Anonymous]

This way works but the reference does not go to the layout book ... and I need some PNG trees have different opacities of others ..
Example in the attached images

[Eduardo Rolon]

First of all Archicad is geared for Construction Documents and its "presentation" capabilities will never be as great as using Photoshop or Illustrator etc. Anyway doing a little test using AC's trees and using the send to back command while turning on vectorial fills with transparent backgrounds gives me this. Different opacities is another different problem that might be solved by using custom pictures.