I've done a transparent GIF in Photoshop CS2 and exported it "Save for web..."
However, my drop shadow effect dithers to WHITE and my background is shades of grey (not just one color).
How do I get rid of this white halo effect and encourage Photoshop to dither to TRANSPARENT and not white?
Tks,
Bansaw posted this at 15:14 — 19th March 2007.
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(I tried using a PNG which gets round the problem but lose my animation.:s)
timjpriebe posted this at 16:34 — 20th March 2007.
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Unfortunately, GIF's can't do degrees of transparency which is required for what you're wanting. It's just completely transparent or not transparent at all.
Anyone know of a workaround for Bansaw's specific situation?
Tim
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andy206uk posted this at 21:40 — 20th March 2007.
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It depends... if the animation is always going to be in the same place on a fixed page you might not need the transparency - it really depends on where you are putting it... failing that... do you really need it to be animated? no offence, but animated gifs are sooooo 1998
Andyk
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Bansaw posted this at 09:23 — 21st March 2007.
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Thanks!
I've gone for the PNG option. Its only IE6< that has the issue. Sooner or later IE6 will be history. My animations are just rollovers actually. My fix for PNG transparency in IE6 totally knocks out for some reason the rollover(!)
Hmmmm... Still it works OK in IE7 and Firefox , so I can just leave it.