Web Design Gurus: Removing White background on animated gifs

[Spooner]

A have a couple of animated gifs I'd like to scale down and add as emoticons to my forum. They all, however, have that annoying white background, where i'd like them all to have transparent backgrounds. Normally, I'd throw it into Photoshop and remove the white backgroudn, but this doesn't work when they are animated.

Anyone know of a tool/way for me to do this?

 

[rh71]

- wrong forum
- use imageready and it allows you to modify frame by frame... use gif89a (the common .gif) format for transparency. PNG also works, but it's not as "safe" for most browsers.

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: rh71
- wrong forum
- use imageready and it allows you to modify frame by frame... use gif89a format for transparency. PNG also works, but it's not as "safe" for most browsers.

i can't for the life of me figure out how to do it with imageready.

 

[rh71]

just google for tutorials...

here's one... at the bottom is a downloads section... play with the sample and you'll get a better idea.
If you meant you don't know how to implement transparency, you need to put each frame onto a new --> transparent background... then use the eraser tool to erase the visible white colors you don't want.

 

[Spooner]

bah.. that's a crummy tutorial and gives instructions for rollovers

 

[Winchester]

Photoshop

You can get a "gif decompiler" AFAIK and then edit all the images.

 

[Injury]

Open in image ready, save as PSD, open in photoshop, remove backgrounds on all layers (each layer = frame), open back up in image ready, recompile.

That'll do it for you if you are only used to PS.

As said before: WRONG FORUM.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Spooner
bah.. that's a crummy tutorial and gives instructions for rollovers

hey do we have to hold your hand every step of the way ?