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[d0rk]

i made this sig for my brother... i can't figure out how to kill the pixels around the character though. how would i do that? (the pixels only show on dark bg's... which he's gonna be using it on)

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Edited by d0rk, 22 March 2007 - 02:49 PM.

[Dance]

GIF doesnt support any alpha masking of pixels, its either 100% transparent or 100% colored. Therefore as this images Antialias buffer pixels is made for white it will be vissible on any other colored background. You could to solve this by remakeing the AA buffer for a dark bg, This could be tedious if you dont have it layered with a background. and only have transparent area around the render. Basicly manual toolwork with the brush. If you have a background layer for the cut out then recolor this bg for the bg color of the website where the sig is to be used.

[d0rk]

ok thnx for the ideas

[Marc]

I'm always hesitant to use .png files on the web just due to the fact that some browsers like earlier versions of IE don't support .png transparency. Another way around this if you are using Photoshop is that in the "Save for Web" option you can choose a matte color. In this dropdown you can specifiy the color of the background you're going to be using and Photoshop will handle to blending for you.