Re: Transparent gifs

Hi,

I don't know what you are starting with when creating your images, however:

If you are using clipart that has a white halo around the image, then the
only thing you can do is edit the halo pixel by pixel.

If you are starting from an aliased graphic, using antialiased is fine, so
long as you set the background colour to be as close as possible to the
intended background.  The edges should blend into the background without
being noticable once the graphic is made transparent to the background
colour.

Hope this helps,

Heather


-----Original Message-----
From: MSR <msrogers(at)gbis.com>
To: HWG-Graphics <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: June 08, 1999 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Transparent gifs


>I have been having some problem with transparent gifs.  When used on a
page,
>they have had a white shadow around them as on the following page:
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9920
>
>I have expanded the selection areas to the point where if I increase the
>selected area much more images become distorted.
>
>I have turned off the antialias feature.
>
>The only option I can figure at this point is taking the images into an
>imaging program, doing a flood fill with a dark color, and going pixel by
>pixel to remove the white areas.  I have done this to a certain extent, but
>when I again place the images on a background I still have the white
shadow.
>
>I use both Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
>
>Help...it's happening on several images I'm using recently.
>
>Marsha
>
>

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