Re: Transparent Backgrounds & Animated GIFs

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From: Theresa Bennett (nospamwebmaster_at_nospamwebworksite.com)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:05:18 -0500

You need program such as GIF Animator or Animation Shop to edit each frame
and resave the whole animation with a transparent background or try this
free online editor:
http://www.gifworks.com/

HTH 

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"Crash Gordon" <SPAMwebmaster@siriussystems.com> wrote in message
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if it the animated .gif background isn't already transparent it would be a
major pain to make it so - probably impossible unless you have copies of all
the images used to create the animate gif in the first place.
what color was the page background on your brother's home page?
"Marc Solovitz" <msolovitz@protovista.com> wrote in message
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|   I downloaded an animated GIF from ClipArt and stored it in a Word doc
with other potential graphics for my use. When I inserted it on a FrontPage
Web page, with a colored background, it appeared with the white block. The
FrontPage image tools gray-out the transparency feature when I select this
animated GIF.
|   Meanwhile, I sent this animated GIF to my brother in an e-mail, from the
same source.  (copied and pasted onto my e-mail...no attachment).  He
selected and copied the image and filed it locally. Then they added the
animated GIF to their small HTML (not FrontPage, or any other software) Home
page.  It comes up without the white block ???  Why ?
|
|      ----- Tom Pepper Willett wrote: -----
|
|      Animated gifs are composed of several different frames, each frame a
|      separate image.  Unless each image in the frame was designed for
|      transparency, it won't be transparent.  You would have to have a gif
|      animation tool to break the image a part, and an image editing
program to
|      give it the transparencies, then put the image back to together in
the gif
|      animation tool.
|      -- 
|      -----
|      Tom Pepper Willett
|      Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
|        http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
|        http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
|      ----
|      "Marc Solovitz" <msolovitz@protovista.com> wrote in message
|      news:247584A8-3B30-480B-83B9-FBB0315BD1E3@microsoft.com...
|      |   When using HTML, it is possible to insert an animated GIF on a
page with
|      a colored background and have it appear without the annoying
"white-block"
|      behind it.  In FrontPage, animated GIFs appear with this white block,
and
|      "trransparency" is grayed-out when the graphic is selected. (When the
|      animated GIF is acquired from a local file). Animated Clip-Art
inserted
|      directly, will work properly ???
|      |   I can't see what is causing this in the HTML code. How can I
create a
|      transparent background for an animated GIF in FrontPage?
|
|
|

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