Gif Images to Photoshop

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Penny_Richardson
Nov 1, 2003
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Hello – Yes, I am VERY NEW to Photoshop 7.0 (Photoshop in general). I have used Micrographix Picture Publisher up until yesterday when I began to use the Photoshop. I created many of my images in the other program and either saved them as .jpg or .gif. I am able to utilize the .jpg (Photoshop allowes me to drop and drag ) but when I attempt to utilize the .gifs I can not seem to get the transparency. All that I have is a business logo which I do not what the background to show but have not been able to get the gif transparent. Any Ideas?

Also, with other programs I merely open an import the pictures and am able to work with them directly in the software (whatever it may be , be it a photo software or web design software). What may I be doing incorrectly with the PhotoShop?

Thank you for any help you give me regarding these questions.

Penny
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larry
Nov 1, 2003
See if this works for you.

Image>Mode>Index Color
Image>Mode>Color Table
Use the eye dropper to select the color to be transparent. Save For Web and select GIF and check Transparency.

Larry Berman
<http://BermanGraphics.com>
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LenHewitt
Nov 2, 2003
Penny,

If you Save for Web>GIF you can drag any of the colours in the image colour palette to the transparency icon at the bottom of that palette and they will become transparent.

Additionally, any area that you have deleted (and so has become transparent) will remian transparent when you Save for Web>GIF.

In both cases you must have the Transparency check-box checked in Save for Web
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Penny_Richardson
Nov 2, 2003
Thanks to both of you for your input. Neither of which will do what I am wanting to do regarding using the file (then) into Photoshop. I can neither place or import without the placemarker background (as I term it.. do not truly now the terminolgy of it) will not disappear. On one hand, I save for web, yet then am unable to bring into photoshop and drop onto a layer – or if I have saved as pdf then unable to get rid of the images placemarker background. Frustating.

My next thought was to take the total web site image I created in Photoshop > Save for Web> Open it up in Adobe GoLive and what to my suprise but the layers are all flattened and it is a single gif file. My thought was to tweak it in Macromedia by dropping the logo onto it in there. WRONG ANSWER! I am getting frustrated to the max.

Penny
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LenHewitt
Nov 2, 2003
Penny,

Open the image in Photoshop.

Mode>RGB

Double click on the layer in the Layers Palette and rename the layer to anything other than ‘Background’.

Use the magic wand to select the area to be transparent (or any other selection tool), Press Delete. File>Save 4 Web>Gif, Check the ‘transparent’ checkbox. That will save it retaining the transparency you have just created.

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