Re: Transparent Color/Selective Area

At 12:30 AM 12/07/1997 PST, you wrote:

>I have an image with white text surrounded by a blurred border.  Since 

>the textured backgound of the page is white, I've picked white as the 

>transparent color when exporting to GIF format.  Now, I've also made the 

>white text transparent, which I don't want.  Can someone shine a light 

>on me?


The best way to do this is to fill in the area surrounding your text and it's blurred bordering with a new color (make sure you have anti-alias turned off in the fill options box). Choose something that does not appear anywhere else in the image (say, a green color). When you export the image, choose the new, filled color as your transparent color.


If your palette is already fixed and you need to pick a color outside of the palette's indexed range:


1) Switch the image to RGB for a moment.

2) Choose a new fill color.

3) fill in the areas you want transparent.

4) Switch back to indexed color.


Hope that helps. :{)


Later,




David R. Heys

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