GIF Img in Photoshop CS3 Extended

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Mommy_Talk
Mar 11, 2008
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Hello. I have searched and searched for an answer to my question and have tried many given solutions to no avail. My problem is the famous white line around my Gif image. I run a website for moms and women in general basically. I am making glitter graphics with my members children’s names. I guess for assistance I will need to explain how I made it so I will do so now…

First I made my basic design. I made it on a transparent background. It included a small pink text line with a 2pt stroke in white. Underneath that I made the name text line. It consist of a patterned stoke. To the left of all that was an image.. edited, no special effects.
I then, satisfied, duplicated it 3 times. I added a different pattern overlay to all 3 saved them as PNGs and closed them. I them reopened them and placed all 3 together as layers and put that through the animation feature. I saved it as "Save for Web and Devices" as a GIF. Now it looks absolutely beautiful on a white background. Just as I wanted. Some of you may not think much of it but it is exactly what a wanted. UNTIL I saw it on a page with a dark background… and there it was! The dreaded yet famous white line.

Here is a link to the image from my photobucket.. < http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc155/MommyTalkmoms/freja test.gif>

If anyone has a solution or perhaps an idea of how to fix it I am up to it. I posted the idea of making glitter name graphics on my website and immediately got 50 request. It has been a week and I still cant get it right.

Note- before anyone gives me this solution, I was told that it was showing a white outline because I was using a patterned stroke and that the border needed to be solid. SO now there is actually a stroke around that too. I also added a stroke to the crown, both still have a white line.

Thanks in advance!

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Phosphor
Mar 11, 2008
Two ways:(assuming you still have the layered psd you used in making the file). Make the gif on a background color that is the same or similar to your web background color. And when you Save for Web choose a Matte color that is the same or close to your web background color.
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Mommy_Talk
Mar 11, 2008
Thanks Ed! Only one problem, I am making these for other people and they want transparent backgrounds. Is that really the only way?
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Phosphor
Mar 11, 2008
Mommy Talk,
I know you want transparent background. What I was going for is a way to get the "fringe" to be the same color as the web background.

The tutorial posted by Mathias is pretty much the same thing.
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Don_McCahill
Mar 12, 2008
Is that really the only way?

You cannot have partial transparency in a GIF. It is all or nothing. However if there is no antialiasing of the edges you will not have a problem. Except that this leaves "jaggies" on the edges, and you customers will not like this either.

You might prepare the web safe palette on your order page and ask the purchase to choose one of these for the matte color. They should be close enough to any background to work correctly.
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Mommy_Talk
Mar 12, 2008
Okay Im not selling these or doing these for money. I am doing them out of the goodness of my heart for other mommies 🙂 These will be used by hundreds of peoples on webpages with different backgrounds. Every color of the rainbow!

So here is my new question. I was told I could remove the white and be left with jagged edges. That’s okay with me. I’d rather have that. How do I do that? Thanks guys 🙂

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