Re: transparency

by "Lonna Poland" <lonna(at)granbury.com>

 Date:  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:34:03 -0600
 To:  <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
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>This can be confusing because Photoshop 5 has several ways to save a 
>gif, and PS 5.5 has even more. I think that if you have an RGB image 
>with a transparent background, and then Export it as a GIF89a, you 
>will preserve transparency. However, if before going to the gif 
>format, you switch into Indexed Color Mode, you have to use the 
>eyedropper to select the color that you want to be transparent. This 
>isn't a complete explanation, but see if it makes sense (and works).


What if you have a gif image from public domain and it was saved with 
a white background.  When I used it it was transparent only on a white 
background.  Is there a way to change it to make it truly transparent 
against all colors...  in PS 5 or PSP 5?

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