Simple .gif editor

[Ray Parrish]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been trying to find a good .gif editor, which can set the
>> background to invisible for web images. I've tried to use Gimp for this,
>> but when it "saves as" to .gif format it tells me that the gif plugin
>> only supports grayscale images. Not good for my purposes. Also I can't
>> figure out how to set the background to see through with it.
>>     
>
> The dialog actually says "grayscale or indexed" - and the default
> option is checked: to do an auto-conversion to indexed.  If you want
> to manually convert to indexed mode - select Image->Mode->Indexed and
> run through the dialog.
>
> There is no such thing as RGB GIF - they are all indexed color AFAIK.
>
> And on a final note - anything that GIF can do, PNG can do better  ;)
>
> Chris
>
>   
Hi,

Thanks for the info! I'll give .png files a try.

I did manage to find the Gimp tutorials on their web site, and have now 
figured out how to set transparency for the background of an image.

Later, Ray Parrish

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