Preserved Topic: OO! OO! Burning question time!

How the HELL do I make transperant gifs while still retaining a good deal of quality...whenever I try it produces images that have ugly dissolved blur things and grainy EVERYTHINGS...I can post an example of a .gif vs. the image in .jpg format against a black background(It was made with a transperant BG in photoshop)

Keep in mind that gif's are limited to a 256 color palette.... because that's just the way it is. And... if your talking about those ugly edges that dont seem to mesh with the background when you do a transparency, consult Doc's HOT (haints on tutorials) section.

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Here's what I do...
1. File > Save for Web (alt + Cntrl + Shift + S)
2. Select either Perceptual, Selective, or Adaptive, whichever looks better.
3. Select No Dither.
4. Check the transparency box.
5. Put Web Snap to 0%.
6. Put Matte to none.
7. Select 256 Colors
8. Put Lossy to 0.

The file size might be slightly larger, but the gif will turn out nice. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Couple of other tricks.Anti-Aliasing is the bane of transparent images, this is usually where you get the jagged edges from. Try not to use this on the edge of your images (especially text)

Also Matteing can be your friend, I use Image Ready for this but if you matte your image to a background either the same color or the average of colors it will smooth things out when placed on a page.

I use this on my sig for this forum, I have the text matted to an average of the colors of the forum, right-click on the sig and you will see the effects.



Walking the Earth like Kane

Image 1) jpg on black.
Image 2) gif created using what mbridge said.

Oh...wow...that works MUCH BETTER THANK YOU MBRIDGE!!!