preserving transparency of imported gifs

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Anonymoose
Nov 28, 2003
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Help! Newbie question – I’ve been working with PS 5.5 for just a few weeks and this is the only problem I’ve not been able to figure out. Whenever I copy in a GIF with a transparent background, I can’t get PS to honor the transparency, even if I select Preserve Transparency for the layer copied to. I’ve gotten around this on simple images by cutting the image from the background using the magnetic wand, but for more complex images that’s just not feasible. I assume this is doable and it’s just my lack of knowledge, yes?
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Eric Gill
Nov 28, 2003
Anonymoose <menolikeyspam> wrote in
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Help! Newbie question – I’ve been working with PS 5.5 for just a few weeks and this is the only problem I’ve not been able to figure out. Whenever I copy in a GIF with a transparent background, I can’t get PS to honor the transparency, even if I select Preserve Transparency for the layer copied to. I’ve gotten around this on simple images by cutting the image from the background using the magnetic wand, but for more complex images that’s just not feasible. I assume this is doable and it’s just my lack of knowledge, yes?

Yes.

Gif transparency is actually transparent pixels. It’s a setting in the file that says "treat X color as transparent." When editing, you’re not going to see it as transparent.

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