How do I create a transparent color on a gif?

[yandina]

Can I specify a color or layer to be transparent when creating a gif? So when added to an html page the original background.gif or color shows through.

Ann-Marie

[Crazy Man Dan]

If you'd like an area to be transparent, all you have to do is remove the background in that area. Anywhere you see the little grey checkerboard pattern will be transparent when the image is saved in a format that supports transparency, such as .png or .gif.

If the image already has one color where you need the transparency to be, you can use the Magic Wand tool to select just that color and delete it.

Hope that answers your question!

Dan

[flohrian]

You must select the color (while holding shift with the magic wand tool), wich should be transparent and delete it, if you open a gif. Then save it again and you'll have got a transparency in the picture!

Greets

Flo

[yandina]

Thanks a bunch, that works. I'm still elevataing my thinking from primitive MSPAINT.

[aatwo]

just remember than while png files support transparency, it does not work with internet explorer, so any transparency in an image will be replaced with a solid background in internet explorer.

[trickman]

yeah... IE sucks.