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Jun 4th 2006#173170 Report
Member since: Jun 4th 2006
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Hi, I'm Brian. I'm a newbie here. I have photoshop7. I have designed a web page in photo shop. I am trying to send it to someone so that she can place it on her web page. I have for example some font that has, inner glow,bevel&emboss,and color overlay. How do I save it so that it looks the same on my photoshop page as it will on someone elses page. When I save it as a transparent gif it's coming out on her page with the correct colors but instead of having the emboss effect it looks like it's stroked in white. I have tried doing it few ways now but no luck. I'm sure I'm missing a step some where. Thank you for you help and look foward to soaking up alot of photoshope knowledge in the future.
Brian
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Jun 5th 2006#173181 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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without having seen anything, my guess would be that you need to set your matte color to something other than white (its in the 'save for web' box when you export your GIF). pick a color that's close to the bg of the page it's on and the problem should correct itself.
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Jun 5th 2006#173188 Report
Member since: Oct 8th 2005
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the reason doe the qhite stroke is because of how gifs handle transparency. with a gif it's either 100% visable or 0. anything inbetween, such as effects like glows, shadows etc, that result in semi-transparencies don't comply with being stict 0 or 100%, so the gif therefor has to apply a default background underneath the semi transparent material to equal 100% visable.

it's an easy fix: copy the tansparent text+effects into a new document, ad a new layer underneath, fill it with a colour close to the background the text will be used on, flatten the image and grab the magix wand tool. uncheck consitancy and antialias and set the number setting (forget what it's called off hand) to 0. clack the backfround, delete, save.

i do it all the time.
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Jun 5th 2006#173196 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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*pssst*...changing the matte color does the exact same thing and it's a WHOLE lot quicker.
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