How about if you use the wand to select those areas of white that you want
to be transparent, and once the selection is made, fill with some otherwise
unused color? Then choose than color for transparent when exporting.

At 11:35 AM 4/3/98 -0800, Collin Lim wrote:
>
>On Photoshop 4, when exporting images as GIF format with a transparent 
>color, is there a way (or trick) to preserve a portion of the image to 
>be non-transparent when that portion is the same color as the one you 
>picked as transparent?  
>
>For example, I have an image of a Mercedes with part of the roof being 
>white.  I exported the image as GIF format from PS4 with white being the 
>transparent color.  That means part of the roof becomes transparent 
>also.  On that particular web page, I have a background color of white 
>with pattern.  The pattern is showing through the roof of the Mercedes.  
>You'll see what I mean by visiting:
>
>http://members.xoom.com/eap/
>
>I thought about painting the white part of the roof off-white.  But 
>there is no off-white color in the web-safe palette.  I'd appreciate any 
>help you can offer, even when its "CANNOT BE DONE".
>
>-Collin
>
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