Rargh!! Transperencies.

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Why don't transperencies ever work for me? Am i supposed to save it as only one file: Jpg, Jpeg, or Gif? What am i doing wrong!? Please help.

Why is it i can never make a correct transperency, it comes out like this, with a white backround:
 
If you're using PSP, you can just go to the GIF optimizer and it does it for you.
 

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Alright i did it, but why's mine grainy and yours not? Should i tinker with the settings or something?
 
You have to set it to use the existing color palate under the color tab in the GIF optimizer.
 
If you're using PSP 7, the easiest way to make transparent GIFs is to go to the Colours menu and choose Set palette transparency. You can now click on the colour in the image that you want to be transparent.

As to why your image is grainy, you have used the GIF optimiser to reduce the ile size, and it's stripped out too many colours. The graininess comes from where PSP is combining pixels together to try and make another colour. This is a process known as "dithering".
 
Originally posted by Jazza
Hey, sorry, but Viper Zero's and GCstyle's pics both look the same. Is there a diference? Am I just blind? :confused:
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:eek: Yes! And Yes!

Look again:
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Look at the body panel under the lights. In Attempt 3, there are some spurious cyan pixels that are not there in Attempt 2. Look how the word "Attempt" looks much better on the right - softer and more natural. If you still can't see it, save both the images and open them in your image editing software. Once you zoom in, it will be clear as night and day.
 
I made a transparant avatar, It's too fuzzy but I can't be bothered to sharpen it right now...
 
Originally posted by Viper Zero
You have to set it to use the existing color palate under the color tab in the GIF optimizer.
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It doesn't let me select "Exsisting Palette" for some reason. :confused:
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
If you're using PSP 7, the easiest way to make transparent GIFs is to go to the Colours menu and choose Set palette transparency. You can now click on the colour in the image that you want to be transparent.
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Well I tried that, and clicking on the color box [which is black] is useless. It doesn't let me open it, or isn't meant to be opened...i don't know. And if i do, having the backround black, nothing in the image seems to happen except the image once again becoming grainy. If i save it then use it, it'll be transperent? Even so, how do i avoid that blasted dithering?
 
Dude! You gotta save your picture as a GIF first! :) Once you save it as a GIF, you can use the existing color palate in the GIF optimizer.
 
Another attempt. I put it together onto a transperent backround, saved it as a GIF, closed it, then went to the GIF Optimizer and selected the "Exsisting Palette" option...
 
I think PSP hates you GCstyle. :lol:

I'm going to go step by step, ok?


1. Open the GIF file (I'm using attempt #2)

2. Open the GIF Optimizer. If you don't see it, go to view > toolbars > select "Web Toolbar".

3. Click on the colored box that is next to "Areas that match this color". When you hover over it, your mouse icon should change to a pipette.

4. Choose R:255 G:255 B:255 (white) in the bottom right corner. That is the color I want to change to a transparency. Click OK.

5. Notice, back at the GIF optimizer, that in the second preview window, the white background of the picture changed to a checkerboard pattern. That represents a transparency.

6. Click on the "Color" tab.

7. Under "What method of color selection do you want to use?", select "Existing Palette". Click OK.

8. Now PSP asks you to save the file. Save it as a different name the the original picture, so you don't mess up the original. Click Save.

9. Now, PSP is only showing the ORIGINAL GIF, since you haven't opened the transparent GIF, you just saved a copy of the original as a transparent one. Open the transparent GIF you just created.

10. You're finished! Upload it and try it out.
 
Went through all the steps perfectly, the backround in the preview was transparent, and out comes....
 
I always did like photoshop better... So much easier to make transparent gif's. In photoshop all you have to do is cut out the color you want transparent, go to file >> gif export.. (or something, cant remember.. been a while since i had my photoshop.. alas, i lost it :cry: )
 

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