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Transparent GIFs
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jconingham
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GIFs are incredibly limited, as they can only work with 256 colors and do not have alpha transparency (which means that either the pixel is 100% opaque or 100% transparent) so all smooth lines that are in touch with the transparent areas will have a jagged look in the end because the smoothness comes from intermediate values between pixels.
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You can use transparent PNG's, which do support alpha transparency and are supported by most modern Browsers. IE6 being the only exception.
You can also try to use the Export feature if you haven't done so. You can set some parameters that may help the look of the GIF.
File->Export-> Gif Optimizer.
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You can also try to use the Export feature if you haven't done so. You can set some parameters that may help the look of the GIF.
File->Export-> Gif Optimizer.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
jconingham
Technical User
For making PNGs work with IE there's a hack here:
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