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The_Triangle

Thu May 10, 2007 10:28 pm


Urgent Help -Photoshop Thing

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This is for a website I'm making in dreamweaver due for school tomorrow. 

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5899/helplx0.jpg

You see my button in dreamweaver, the HTML one, the moon/orb thing, its a GIF file from photoshop. 

I want those white specs around the edges of the orb off of it. Is there any way to do that? 

I'd try erasing the pixels but that won't work.


Please help. Thanks


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rdrake

Thu May 10, 2007 10:46 pm


RE:Urgent Help -Photoshop Thing

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GIF images that are not rectangular have a problem with pixels appearing like you describe.  Why?  As I recall, the pixels are either transparent or not, not in between.

The solution?  You can either use a PNG image, or colour the background a dark colour to try and hide the white pixels.  One issue with going PNG is that Internet Explorer 6 and below does not support transparent PNGs.


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MihaiG

Mon May 14, 2007 6:54 pm


Re: Urgent Help -Photoshop Thing

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as i recall  gif's dont support transperencies, just use a png,that should work

besides gifs are only usefull for animations and thats where it stops:P


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rdrake

Mon May 14, 2007 7:07 pm


Re: Urgent Help -Photoshop Thing

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as i recall  gif's dont support transperencies, just use a png,that should workGIFs do support transparencies, just not alpha layers.  Meaning their colours are either transparent or not, not partially transparent.  This is what is causing the white pixels.  PNGs do not have this limitation and would (have been) the ideal solution.


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Dan

Mon May 14, 2007 7:10 pm


RE:Urgent Help -Photoshop Thing

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If this is in photoshop, select the layer the botton is on, then go to layer->matting->defringe

Select 1 to 5 pixels and hit ok

if you are lucky it should cleary up the white outline. Other wise you will have to use other methods like selcting by color or slowly going around it and deleting the white space.