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OK, and what type of gif file do I save it as?
and should it work if a create a rough and dirty web page on Netscape composer and change the background colour place the picture there and the transparent gif should work?
So choosing white as the transparent part - everything in my pic that is white - will be transparent?
Andrew
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Pretty much. I usually use the color replacer tool to turn the white image background to an ugly pink I never use for any other purpose except transparent backgrounds. That way I can have white bits in the image that don't "accidentally" turn invisible.
If you're saving as a GIF, (and making an image transparent) you need to convert it to 256 colors. To do this, go to Colors -> Decrease Color Depth -> 256 Colors (8 bit). This should bring up a little window that looks like this:
Make sure that everything you see in that image is checked when you covert. That will make it so that the image retains 90% of it's original colors and there'll be no bleeding, etc.
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Also, if you can use the standard/web safe pallette, the file will be smaller. With most of my drawings, this screws up the colors too badly, but when I was trying to do a banner for my site, I finally figured out that it was the only way to make the file small enough to meet the requirements for submission.
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