A Couple Of Questions Re Animations

[Mrs. Muddled]

Hi y'all!

 

Gail has suggested that this is the spot I need to be to get some of the plethora of questions I have about my website, answered.

 

I want to add an animation to one of the posts in my blog. However, the animation has a white background and I want a clear background.

 

Do you have any idea how I can change that ... or is it impossible as I did not design the animation.

[TCH-Don]

You will need an animation program that can modify a GIF file

and select the background to be transparent

Like PSP or Photoshop

 

Microsoft GIF Animator is free rather simple and

hard to find but here is one place

http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1&ID=288

[Mrs. Muddled]

You will need an animation program that can modify a GIF file

and select the background to be transparent

Like PSP or Photoshop

 

Microsoft GIF Animator is free rather simple and

hard to find but here is one place

http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1&ID=288

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Thanks Don.

 

I have opened that program but am really having difficulty figuring out just how to take a .gif or .jpg file into that program and replace its background with a clear view.

 

Can you give me any descriptions as to what exactly I have to do once I get into the program? Perhaps you could take an animation of yours with a white background and open it in the program and see just what I have to do to erase the white.

 

I find all the terms in the program very foreign. I just don't get it!

 

Once I am able to do one animation ... I will be able to take it from there.

[TCH-Don]

If you click the ? in the tool bar you find the help file.

 

Click the standard folder icon to open your file

select each frame one at a time and go to the image tab

be sure transparency is checked

click on the transparency color box

select the background color from the palette

go to the next frame and repeat

then use the save as icon to save a new file.