Re: Gifs transparency (again)

You'll probably want a better answer than this, but it's nice as a quick
fix.  If you have Office 97, you should have a copy of Microsoft Photo
Editor.  The transparency tool is really easy to use (just click on a pixel
of the color you want to be set to transparent).


-----Original Message-----
From: Lonna Poland <lonna(at)granbury.com>
To: Hwg-Graphics@Hwg. Org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:45 PM
Subject: Gifs transparency (again)


>I know we have had much discussion about gif transparency over the last
>months, but I keep running into the same problem with PS5 (PC format), so
>wondering if you guys have any suggestions.
>
>Quite a long time ago I used to be able to find a gif file in public domain
>image sites or in my image collections, then make a small change such as
>rotating or resizing and export again as a transparent gif.  For some
reason
>this isn't working any more.
>
>Now when I open a gif file into PS5 and do any changes with it, I have to
>literally do a "cut-out" selection and put it on a new transparent
>background in order to make any changes and keep a transparent setting.  I
>don't understand why I can't make changes to a gif file and then export it
>to transparent once again.  It seems to lose all transparency after I make
>any changes.  I have tried both interlaced and non-interlaced with no luck.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>I also have PSP5, but I really don't know how to use it yet.  Maybe this
has
>an easier way to do this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Lonna
>
>

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