Thursday, June 14, 2007
attention those with photoshop smarts
I'm using Photoshop 7. I've got a psd that I'm trying to turn into a gif with a transparent background for a webpage.The psd has four layers: two warped text layers, a regular image layer with glow added, and another image layer with no effects. They are all on a transparent background.I have been trying to turn the image into a gif by first merging visible layers, and then setting the color mode to indexed. At this point, photoshop asks if I wish to flatten all layers. Well, there is only one layer because I merged visible. If I click yes, it creates a white background.Why does photoshop think there are multiple layers, after I have flattened visible (and ALL the layers were visible when I do this)?I have tried copying the contents of each layer into new layers in a new file, but this still doesn't work.Any advice is much appreciated.
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Welcome to Photoshop's Most Unintuitive Feature Ever:Look under the Help menu for a wizard to create transparent GIFs. I have no idea why it's over there. No one ever looks under Help for actual functionality but... well, there you go. It'll step you through what you need to do, etc. Works like a champ.
Photoshop can't have transparancy as a final image so will generate a white background. you don't have to flatten the image to save as a GIF (which can have transparency-you knew this) take the image into imageready or to save for web and choose gif there... there will be transparency in the image. Peace
Dear god. Well that was a surprise.Thanks, it worked :)
Thank you! I've never played around with "save for web"... I've always done things the long way. :)
Transparent PNGs are cool but Windows IE doesn't handle them properly because it is retarded and stupid.
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