problem with feather

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Tiswah
Aug 14, 2005
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HI,

I wanna use feather on a picture, so i select the picture and reverse the selection. then i use feather 50 pix in a new frame and use transparancy. on the screen of photoshop it looks transparant with feather but after when it is saved as gif the feateher is gone
so it it is a normal hard picture???

How can i save my picture with the smooth feather and that it stays transparant??????

Im dutch sorry for my english?
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Flo Nelson
Aug 14, 2005
"Tiswah" wrote in message
HI,

I wanna use feather on a picture, so i select the picture and reverse the selection. then i use feather 50 pix in a new frame and use transparancy. on the screen of photoshop it looks transparant with feather but after when it is saved as gif the feateher is gone
so it it is a normal hard picture???

How can i save my picture with the smooth feather and that it stays transparant??????

Im dutch sorry for my english?

Gif doesn’t create variable transparency very well. If you’re doing this for a web page, your best bet is to put another layer underneath that is the same color as your web page. Then it will appear transparent.

If you can’t do that, you have a choice of transparency types (right under the transparency check box). Check the check box then experiment with the different types – dither usually works okay.

32 bit pngs will give you excellent transparency but Internet Explorer does not support this very well yet.

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Tacit
Aug 15, 2005
In article <42ff6fcb$0$2051$>,
"Tiswah" wrote:

I wanna use feather on a picture, so i select the picture and reverse the selection. then i use feather 50 pix in a new frame and use transparancy. on the screen of photoshop it looks transparant with feather but after when it is saved as gif the feateher is gone

Correct.

The GiF format does not permit translucency. A pixel is either 100% transparent or 100% opaque, no in-between.

If you want an image to be transparent and feathered, you can put it on the same colored background as the Web page itself, to simulate the effect of translucency.

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