Re: transparency & interlacing

I sometimes get the same "aura", especially when coming from Xara's 
excellent text 3D program in transperent background mode. Generally, I will 
take the GIF into PSP and use the edging tool sparingly to soften the text 
edges. Seems to do the trick. 

Dan Fleming
Webmaster Services
On 12/31/97 16:42:45 you wrote:
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>Dear Claus,
>
>Read your reply to Helen with a lot of interest. Unfortunately you
>trailed off just as it was getting really interesting...
>
>Yes. I am often unhappy with my transparent gifs due to the "aura" at
>the borders of the rest of the image. More so when I am using text.
>
>In fact I am now forced to use a color similar to the expected
>background as the one to be made transparent - which defeats the whole
>purpose of transparency !
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>If, for instance, I use a white background and then make the white
>transparent, if I then display the image against a green background, I
>get a white aura. I'm sure you know what I mean.
>
>I'd love to know what this further editing is to remove the aura.
>
>Thanks
>
>JRK Rao
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>>ccyrny(at)stuttgart.netsurf.de wrote:
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>> 6. Now just click 'Save', and that's it. When you display the file in
>>    your browser (not in PSP) you will notice that the selected color
>>    has disappeared (is transparent). If you are not happy with the
>>    result (maybe you have a kind of 'aura' at the borders of the
>>    rest of the image) you will have to do some further editing to
>>    remove this.
>> 
>> Good luck
>> 
>> Claus
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