[thelist] Photoshop 6 and Tranparencies...

[Chris Johnston]

On 5/25/06, Anthony Baratta <anthony at baratta.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy...
>
> I have an older image that was saved with an ugly green background that
> was assigned as the transparent color. I've been asked to change the size of
> the image - but with Photoshop 6 I can't figure out how to maintain the ugly
> green as the transparent color. All the googling I've done says "make the
> areas transparent". If I use the magic eraser or another tool I end up with
> a green halo around the image.
>
> The old-olde way was to select the color you wanted as transparent. How do
> I do the same thing with Photoshop 6? This is driving me crazy.
>
>
Hi,

I am not sure how to do this in Photoshop, but you could download the 30 day
trial of Fireworks in which doing this is trivial. In Fireworks, when
creating a gif with transparency, all you need to do is to click on the
colour that you want to be transparent.

Chris

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