GIF89a Program

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hkboy
Sep 3, 2003
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Hi. Can anybody help me… I am searching for the GIF89A Photoshop Plug-in Export… I tried checking the web and it seems that I cannot find the software now..

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edjh
Sep 3, 2003
hkboy wrote:
Hi. Can anybody help me… I am searching for the GIF89A Photoshop Plug-in Export… I tried checking the web and it seems that I cannot find the software now..
I don’t know what version of Photoshop you are using, but check your installation disk. Should be in the Goodies folder. But you don’t need it. Save for Web is much better.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
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zuuum
Sep 3, 2003
Will the GIF89A in the Goodies folder restore the eyedropper transparency color selector for gif export/saves using version 7.01??

Save for the web is useless to me mainly because it is so unapparent how to select a color or group of colors to be transparent in GIF files, as it was in previous versions using Export…. Gif I still use previous version OR a totally different program to make transparent backgrounded GIFs. The online help files don’t simply explain how to do it either. They speak of matting a transparency, but never how to select a group of colors to be transparent, in the first place. Am I the only one annoyed at this change?

"edjh" wrote in message
hkboy wrote:
Hi. Can anybody help me… I am searching for the GIF89A Photoshop
Plug-in
Export… I tried checking the web and it seems that I cannot find the software now..
I don’t know what version of Photoshop you are using, but check your installation disk. Should be in the Goodies folder. But you don’t need it. Save for Web is much better.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

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Clinical
Sep 3, 2003
Your background layer should have the color you want to be transparent. For example: Fill your background with white. Then place your objects on new layers. When you
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Joe
Sep 3, 2003
"zuuum" wrote:

Will the GIF89A in the Goodies folder restore the eyedropper transparency color selector for gif export/saves using version 7.01??
Save for the web is useless to me mainly because it is so unapparent how to select a color or group of colors to be transparent in GIF files, as it was in previous versions using Export…. Gif I still use previous version OR a totally different program to make transparent backgrounded GIFs. The online help files don’t simply explain how to do it either. They speak of matting a transparency, but never how to select a group of colors to be transparent, in the first place. Am I the only one annoyed at this change?

I forgot to check the Goodies folder, and checked Adobe and can’t find it either (finally someone posted it here, thanks). I has to use "Save For Web" which works with most files *except* 2 files I just can’t be able to get it to work correctly. I have tried dozens times using all the tricks I can think of (converted to RGB, changed background color, converted back to Index color you name it) but it just won’t work.

I have to give up, and now I can try again with the Gif89a export option. I am not new to GIF transparency but new to "Save To Web"

"edjh" wrote in message
hkboy wrote:
Hi. Can anybody help me… I am searching for the GIF89A Photoshop
Plug-in
Export… I tried checking the web and it seems that I cannot find the software now..
I don’t know what version of Photoshop you are using, but check your installation disk. Should be in the Goodies folder. But you don’t need it. Save for Web is much better.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
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Joe
Sep 3, 2003
(Joe) wrote:

"zuuum" wrote:

Will the GIF89A in the Goodies folder restore the eyedropper transparency color selector for gif export/saves using version 7.01??
Save for the web is useless to me mainly because it is so unapparent how to select a color or group of colors to be transparent in GIF files, as it was in previous versions using Export…. Gif I still use previous version OR a totally different program to make transparent backgrounded GIFs. The online help files don’t simply explain how to do it either. They speak of matting a transparency, but never how to select a group of colors to be transparent, in the first place. Am I the only one annoyed at this change?

I forgot to check the Goodies folder, and checked Adobe and can’t find it either (finally someone posted it here, thanks). I has to use "Save For Web" which works with most files *except* 2 files I just can’t be able to get it to work correctly. I have tried dozens times using all the tricks I can think of (converted to RGB, changed background color, converted back to Index color you name it) but it just won’t work.
I have to give up, and now I can try again with the Gif89a export option. I am not new to GIF transparency but new to "Save To Web"

Great! I just tried the GIF89A and have finally got the problem solved in minute.
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zuuum
Sep 4, 2003
Funny you should mention, just after I followed the Save as web instructions posted, noting missed steps, I too have GIFs that just will not display as transparent background in any viewer except PS. It looks like it is transparent in the Save as web pane, and PS windows, but opening it with IrfanView shows no transparency.
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edjh
Sep 4, 2003
zuuum wrote:
Funny you should mention, just after I followed the Save as web instructions posted, noting missed steps, I too have GIFs that just will not display as transparent background in any viewer except PS. It looks like it is transparent in the Save as web pane, and PS windows, but opening it with IrfanView shows no transparency.
Look at the image properties in Irfanview. Irfanview does not display transparency per se. What matters is how it displays on the web.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
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zuuum
Sep 4, 2003
IrfanView WILL display transparency, if you know how to set the options… but only of a GIF89a.
The GIFs produced by PS 7 are of a different spec that IrfanView does not display as transparent. I’ll write the Irfan author about it. I would suspect that an older browser may have the same display problems. And those obsolete browsers ARE out there. But I do know how to use Save for web to map transparency properly after all.

"edjh" wrote in message
zuuum wrote:
Funny you should mention, just after I followed the Save as web
instructions
posted, noting missed steps, I too have GIFs that just will not display
as
transparent background in any viewer except PS. It looks like it is transparent in the Save as web pane, and PS windows, but opening it with IrfanView shows no transparency.
Look at the image properties in Irfanview. Irfanview does not display transparency per se. What matters is how it displays on the web.

Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

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