Re: transparent animated gifs

In a message dated 7/2/98 11:23:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, olly(at)oneworld.org
writes:

<< Hi,
 
 I am trying to make an animated banner using Gifbuilder on my Mac. I want
 to incorporate transparency into the animation so that it gradually fades
 away at the end of the loop. However, I don't seem to be able to get the
 transparency feature to work. I have tried exporting the transparent images
 in the Gif89a transparency mode, and I have also tried to use the
 transparency feature in gifbuilder, but with no luck, they both just turn
 out grey! Is it possible to do this and does anyone know how?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Olly >>

Hello,
I was having trouble with the same situation, although I was going about it
differently it seems.  I am trying to take an existing animation of 5 frames
and make it transparent, So I opened the file in Animation shop in PSP 5 and
took the frames apart into seperate images.  I took them into Photoshop5 and
made a transparent background and used the Gif89 exporter and then put the
frames back together with animation shop again.  Now my problem is that after
doing all of that, the first frame looks good but the rest of the frames are
fuzzy and unclear.

Any Suggestions?

Sean Collins
HubJunky1(at)aol.com

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