GIF ewww!!!

i save a transparent gif, it looks nice and clean, but then when put it into another place, guess wut?

there r weird white spaces around the objects. can somebody tell me

1)what r these weird white things around my ojbects
2)any good way to take them out
3)most important, any way to avoid them?

White spaces are the translucent (not 100% transparent or opaque) pixels that were in your image before saving them. To avoid them, you would try to eliminate those pixels or just use JPEG if possible. :\

Eraser at Pencil setting and 1 pixel size brush should do the trick.

de-fringe anyone?

Originally posted by huby40
i save a transparent gif, it looks nice and clean, but then when put it into another place, guess wut?

there r weird white spaces around the objects. can somebody tell me

1)what r these weird white things around my ojbects
2)any good way to take them out
3)most important, any way to avoid them?

1. Those white pixels around the object edges is called the "matte".

2. To remove a matte from a selection:

Choose Layer > Matting > Remove White Matte.

3. Either don't save images as GIFs with transparency, or save GIFs with no matte.

I usally add a white stroke around the image and set it's opacity down to about 50%, this has been keeping the white jags out of the transparent image.

Goodness, I can't believe nobody has suggested this! Use a PNG file! Browsers that don't suck will fully support PNG alpha-transparency. I believe IE6 does too, but no guarantees on that one.

ooh lots of options to choose from. thanx everybody