Transparent GIFs and drop shadows

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Evelyn_Wilkerson
Feb 2, 2004
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I have a logo that consists of text with a drop shadow. It was created in Photoshop, and saved as a transparent GIF. However, when I try to use this logo on anything other than a white background, the shadow appears white.

At first I thought it might be due to the fact that the shadow color was black, with 20% opacity, so I went back and created it with a grey shadow at 100% opacity. It still shows as white when I put it on a colored background. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I would fix this?

Thank you.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Feb 2, 2004
Vicky Cravey "White (halo) around gif image on the web" 1/22/02 6:10am </cgi-bin/webx?13/0>
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larry
Feb 2, 2004
Drop shadows on transparent GIF’s are meant to be viewed on the color background that they were created on because there is a transparent blend in the shadow that lets the background show through. I’m not sure why the color is off when viewed on a different background without examining the source file. I’d suggest getting the source file, or recreating it, and redoing the shadow on the correct color background.

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