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June 7th, 2003, 09:18 PM
#11
Inactive Member
did you do it in psp? i have noticed some of my files do the same thing.
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June 8th, 2003, 04:34 PM
#12
HB Forum Owner
I used Image Ready...which is made by Adobe and works with Photoshop...
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June 9th, 2003, 09:50 AM
#13
HB Forum Owner
Okay well not trying to sound like a know-it-all or anything, but I'd say that it's because GIFs can only support solid transparency, and I think what you've got (in the original file) would be a transparent gradient... so it looks good before you make it, but then when you export it, it can only accept one level of transparency.
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June 10th, 2003, 02:27 PM
#14
HB Forum Owner
I'm not really understanding your post there KB...I guess it's my inexperience with the programs...but what I did was start out with a transparant background...and simply painted on that...
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June 11th, 2003, 08:56 PM
#15
Inactive Member
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June 12th, 2003, 01:54 PM
#16
Inactive Member
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June 16th, 2003, 01:50 PM
#17
HB Forum Owner
A-HA!!!! I've spent the last 20 fucking minutes trying to find this discussion, I cruised through the acrop, jizz nasty, and finally I've found it again.. anyway.....
With transparencies, you can only select ONE single colour to display as the transparency. You cannot have a "gradient" transparency, so to speak. Which is why all the HB smilies have jagged white edges: they look nice and smooth against a white background, but not the black.
Does that make sense?
Is this discussion too old to be resolved now?
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June 16th, 2003, 02:55 PM
#18
HB Forum Owner
Well...I don't see what you mean...when I made my file...I go to new file...and I have the Background color option...you can pick between white, black, transparant...I chose transparant...what else should I be picking?...maybe you can send me an example in a photoshop file form...
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June 17th, 2003, 01:31 PM
#19
HB Forum Owner
Yeah, you're not doing anything wrong in doing that... the thing is, when you start drawing on top of that transparent layer, if you zoom in to the point where you can see individual pixels, you will notice that some are more transparent than others... for example, a solid pixel has an opacity of 100%, and a fully transparent pixel is 0%... the ones in between have verying opacity levels... meaning that you can see what is contained within the pixel, and also the background behind it... this is fine for a photoshop image, but when you export it to a GIF, it can only store opacity levels of 0 or 100%... there is no in between in the land of GIF. So when you convert it to a GIF, it automatically converts them all to 100%...
If you still don't understand, say the word and I will post pics to help me explain it.
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