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I am using Photoshop 6.0.1. with XP Home. I have viewed several websites dealing with creating transparent gifs. I have explicitly followed directions but cannot create a transparent gif. No checkered background appears as it should. I use the eyedropper tool, select, then delete, and the deleted area shows as white. What am I doing wrong? Or is there something wrong with my basic Photoshop settings? Or what?

when you save it you have to save it as a gif and make sure the matte is set to "none"...and that there is no bg color/fill whatever.

Make sure to select the "Background" layer and hit delete to actually have no background.

Thank you both for your replies. But I am now hopelessly confused. I opened a .gif, used the magic wand tool to draw around an area, then selected, which selected the complete image, then keyed delete, which deleted the entire image. Could someone guide me through how to make the background of an image transparent? Thank you.

ctrl-shift-i to invert your selection and delete, or instead of inverting hit the layer mask button on the bottom of the layers palette (look around, you'll find it). then you can just turn off your background layer and save for web as a gif with the transparency box check.

and to make me and other people happy, type an actual descriptive subject next time

chris