Transparent .GIF's

[sneakyhacker420]

Someone PLEASE teach me how to make a transparent .gif file... i'm getting REALLY pissed off cause the adobe help SUCKS... i just need to know... and quick... help will be greatly appreciated

[Sparq]

Ok, so you have a picture....The background should be a solid color for this to work well. Remember that blurry edges don't usually work too well. Anyway, when you're done with your picture, and it's ready to go, like this:


Go to Image, then Mode, and select Indexed color. Just click ok on the window that pops up. Then go to File, Export, Gif89a Export. A window will pop up. Use the eye dropper to sample all the colors you want to be transparent (they well be shown as grey in the picture). When you are happy with your selections, click ok, and save it (as a Compuserve Gif). That's how I do mine. It should now look like this:


I know, this one is a little messed up, but I only spent a minute on it...I hope it helps. Good luck.

EDIT: this is all in Photoshop.

[pbzmag]

I tried to make a transparent picture but I'm having trouble. When I go to File>Export, I only get Path to Illustrator. I'm using Photoshop 7.0. Did I miss something? I followed the first part correctly.

pbzmag

[sneakyhacker420]

the only thing in the exports menu are Path to Illustrator and ZoomView


theres no gif89a


what do i do??


here, can you just take the pic in my sig (pie revolution), and make it into a transparent .gif

(just the light gray background and inside the letters, like in P, O, etc.)

[Potatoboy]

File | Save for Web...

Change settings to the appropriate scheme (I used GIF 64 Non-Dithered for this.

Eyedrop the backround, then click the first button under the color pallete on the left (Map current color to transparent) then save.

[sneakyhacker420]

thanks alot potato!

you da man!

[boss_automager]

can someone make this transparent?and resized down alot

[Potatoboy]

You can now that I told you how.

[boss_automager]

im not exactly that great with computers and i didnt really understand what you said.so i need someone to help

[behemoth]

here you go you lazy schlabadabadingdong!..

transparent and sized down

[Sparq]

Sorry sneakyhacker, I'm using 5.0 so it's probably different.

Boss:


How's that?

**EDIT**: FiRe, you beat me to it! Ah well....take your pick Boss

[behemoth]

sparq you suck...

[behemoth]

all i do...is use the majik wand and select the bkgrnd and hit the delete button on my keebord

[pbzmag]

Thanks for the info.

pbzmag

[Sparq]

I deleted text and background with the magic wand, resized the image to 40% original (which is why it's a little pixelated) paint can filled the transparent space with a neytral grey, and then selected that as the transparent shade and exported. I suck....lol