Transparent gifs

TM
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The Magician
Dec 8, 2003
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Is there a way in either Image Ready or Photoshop to take the background out in an animated gif and make it transparent?
I seem to remember doing it some years ago, but forgot how. (May have been with another program for gifs too, not sure…but would imagine there’s some way to do it with Photoshop ot Image Ready.) I have a run of the mill animated guestbook icon I’d like to use on my website, but it has a white square background I’d like to dump. Any clues?
Thanks!
eddie
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CB
Dec 8, 2003
If it’s a still, try this:

copy and past image into new psd

select>color range and pick the background color, this will select everything that fits within the range as defined by the %.

hit delete so the selected background disappears so to reveal the checkered alpha area and save as transparent gif

CB

"The Magician" wrote in message
Is there a way in either Image Ready or Photoshop to take the background out in an animated gif and make it transparent?
I seem to remember doing it some years ago, but forgot how. (May have been with another program for gifs too, not sure…but would imagine there’s some way to do it with Photoshop ot Image Ready.) I have a run of the mill animated guestbook icon I’d like to use on my website, but it has a white square background I’d like to dump. Any clues?
Thanks!
eddie
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Bob
Dec 9, 2003
I’ve tried this several times and any modification kills the animation. Bob
"The Magician" wrote in message
Is there a way in either Image Ready or Photoshop to take the background out in an animated gif and make it transparent?
I seem to remember doing it some years ago, but forgot how. (May have been with another program for gifs too, not sure…but would imagine there’s some way to do it with Photoshop ot Image Ready.) I have a run of the mill animated guestbook icon I’d like to use on my website, but it has a white square background I’d like to dump. Any clues?
Thanks!
eddie
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Max
Dec 9, 2003
I had used GIF MOVIE GEAR for all my gif animations, since it had very powerful optimization features. It was and probably still is way ahead of Adobe. Worth looking at.

-Max

"The Magician" wrote
Is there a way in either Image Ready or Photoshop to take the background out in an animated gif and make it transparent?
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steven
Dec 9, 2003
This has to be done in ImageReady. Photoshop doesn’t do animated gifs.

In ImageReady:
-use the eyedropper to choose the color you want to be transparent. -in the Color Table palette, click on the Transparency button (mini grey & white checkerboard)
-(make sure your main window is on the Optimized tab if you want to see the changes)
-File > Save Optimized As
-don’t put too many of these on your web page 😉

Steven

"The Magician" wrote in message
Is there a way in either Image Ready or Photoshop to take the background out in an animated gif and make it transparent?
I seem to remember doing it some years ago, but forgot how. (May have been with another program for gifs too, not sure…but would imagine there’s some way to do it with Photoshop ot Image Ready.) I have a run of the mill animated guestbook icon I’d like to use on my website, but it has a white square background I’d like to dump. Any clues?
Thanks!
eddie
TM
The Magician
Dec 9, 2003
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This has to be done in ImageReady. Photoshop doesn’t do animated gifs.
In ImageReady:
-use the eyedropper to choose the color you want to be transparent. -in the Color Table palette, click on the Transparency button (mini grey & white checkerboard)
-(make sure your main window is on the Optimized tab if you want to see the changes)
-File > Save Optimized As
-don’t put too many of these on your web page 😉

Steven

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Knew there wuz a way!
Thanks buddy!
eddie

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