Why does my transparent background have to be white?

I’m trying to make an animated gif with a picture of an arm and then a watch fades in on the wrist. What I want to do is have one photo of the arm and the other photos of the watch (with varying degrees of opacity) with a transparent background. It works if I save the transparent background as white only. If I go to Save for Web and select anything else, other than white, using Matte, it won’t work. My watch has white in it, so the background has to be another color.

Thanks,

BJ

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(BJ) wrote:

It works if I save the transparent background as white only. If I go to Save for Web and select anything else, other than white, using Matte, it won’t work. My watch has white in it, so the background has to be another color.

The matte color is not the same as the transparency color. You make the background transparent by building it on a transparent background in Photoshop, and making sure "transparency" is ticked on in ImageReady’s Optimize palette.

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The matte color is not the same as the transparency color. You make the background transparent by building it on a transparent background in Photoshop, and making sure "transparency" is ticked on in ImageReady’s Optimize palette.

That could be the problem…I’m not using Image Ready. I’ve been using Photoshop for years (obviously not for transparencies) but I find Image Ready so damn convoluted that I can’t use it for animated gifs. I even tried reading the instructions and just gave up. I’d seriously rather throw myself in to traffic then try using it again.

Right now I’m using some program called Baborosa, which has a transparency feature and as I mentioned it works, but only if the gif file is saved with a white background.

I might just have to give up on the ol’ animated gif idea.

Thanks,

BJ

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:50:15 GMT, (BJ) found these unused words floating about:

The matte color is not the same as the transparency color. You make the background transparent by building it on a transparent background in Photoshop, and making sure "transparency" is ticked on in ImageReady’s Optimize palette.

That could be the problem…I’m not using Image Ready. I’ve been using Photoshop for years (obviously not for transparencies) but I find Image Ready so damn convoluted that I can’t use it for animated gifs. I even tried reading the instructions and just gave up. I’d seriously rather throw myself in to traffic then try using it again.

Right now I’m using some program called Baborosa, which has a transparency feature and as I mentioned it works, but only if the gif file is saved with a white background.

I might just have to give up on the ol’ animated gif idea.
Thanks,

BJ

Of course you could easily ‘solve’ your problem by making the ‘white’ of the clockface a ‘lesser’ white, say 232,232,232

-=OR=-

http://www.anicursor.com/download.html#creag
might be some other program/tool to help.

"BJ" wrote in message

The matte color is not the same as the transparency color. You make the background transparent by building it on a transparent background in Photoshop, and making sure "transparency" is ticked on in ImageReady’s Optimize palette.

That could be the problem…I’m not using Image Ready. I’ve been using Photoshop for years (obviously not for transparencies) but I find Image Ready
so damn convoluted that I can’t use it for animated gifs. I even tried reading the instructions and just gave up. I’d seriously rather throw myself
in to traffic then try using it again.

Right now I’m using some program called Baborosa, which has a transparency feature and as I mentioned it works, but only if the gif file is saved with a
white background.

I might just have to give up on the ol’ animated gif idea.
Thanks,

BJ

Image Ready is very easy to use for animations
"export optimized as" and choose gif
or export as flash

get the animation palette
make the frames by clicking the paper icon
while in each frame turn off and on the layers you want to show in that frame
choose the time for each to show (click the 0 sec) you can do this to multiple frames by CTRL or SHIFT
(for transitions use tween looks like little bubbles)

Thanks for the tips, folks. I’ll go through them all and see what I can do.

BJ

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"BJ" wrote in message

The matte color is not the same as the transparency color. You make the background transparent by building it on a transparent background in Photoshop, and making sure "transparency" is ticked on in ImageReady’s Optimize palette.

That could be the problem…I’m not using Image Ready. I’ve been using Photoshop for years (obviously not for transparencies) but I find Image Ready
so damn convoluted that I can’t use it for animated gifs. I even tried reading the instructions and just gave up. I’d seriously rather throw myself
in to traffic then try using it again.

Right now I’m using some program called Baborosa, which has a transparency feature and as I mentioned it works, but only if the gif file is saved with a
white background.

I might just have to give up on the ol’ animated gif idea.
Thanks,

BJ

Image Ready is very easy to use for animations
"export optimized as" and choose gif
or export as flash

get the animation palette
make the frames by clicking the paper icon
while in each frame turn off and on the layers you want to show in that frame
choose the time for each to show (click the 0 sec) you can do this to multiple frames by CTRL or SHIFT
(for transitions use tween looks like little bubbles)