Transparent gif problem

[alley]

How can I keep the quality of a jpeg image after converting it to a transparent gif?

Everytime I do this is my image editor it makes the image look like crap when it is saved as a gif. It looses quality and color.

[Bruce]

GIFs can only have a maximum of 256 colors, so it's not going to look too great.

If you want a high-quality transparent image, use PNG.

[alley]

This brings me to another problem with my image editor (microsoft image composer). I have tried making transparent .png images with no luck. They always come out having a white background. I check the box where it askes to save the image as transparent, then I select the color/area of the image that I want to be transparent, and when I save the image as a .png file ... it has a white background?

[kabatak]

transparent .png has a problem with IE6 and below. I heard they fixed it in IE7, not sure though.

[veggie1232]

well if its animated use image ready still low quality but better then all the other little animated gif programs like gif movie gear

[themoose]

Most people won't notice the difference between a .gif and .jpeg unless the look for it anyway.

[alley]

yeah, but you can't make a jpeg transparent though. I need the image to be transparent.

[veggie1232]

why not take a screen shot of the place ur transparent iamge will be and just take htat color and make it that background so it would aprear as if its transparent?

[alley]

I do that all the time with pngs and jpegs when I am using a black background, but with lighter colors sometimes it just don't look so good. I can ge the colors very close, but they are still off. That's why I prefer using a transparent gif.


why not take a screen shot of the place ur transparent iamge will be and just take htat color and make it that background so it would aprear as if its transparent?

[veggie1232]

the background color is off :S?

thats why u take a screen shot of where the image will be once u put it there and paest that into ur image u want to have transparent background and use eye dropper tool select that color and make it ur background

wala

or did i mis understand u? :S

[alley]

I do that too ..haha

Oh, I forgot to tell you that the image I am trying to edit already has a white background that I am trying to get rid of so it is not that easy.


the background color is off :S?

thats why u take a screen shot of where the image will be once u put it there and paest that into ur image u want to have transparent background and use eye dropper tool select that color and make it ur background

wala

or did i mis understand u? :S

[quivira]

transparent .png has a problem with IE6 and below. I heard they fixed it in IE7, not sure though.
It was fixed in IE7 Beta 2 (I think that's the version) the last time I checked with my new 32-bit-PNG-based design.

There is a fix for IE6 transparency using Javascript. It's here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ .

Hope this helps.

[ablaye]

What graphic software do you use?