Re: transparency
by "Lonna Poland" <lonna(at)granbury.com>
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:34:03 -0600 |
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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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