Mercurio7899

I have an image with a transparent background and I want to save it as a GIF. Currently I do it as a PNG and it looks great, but older browsers don't support transparent PNG so I am tyring to make it a GIF. I know you should "save for web" and then select GIF but what are the best settings for this? All my attempts look terrible! Thanks in advance [righton]

Oh yeh and I am using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

retired_paddza

Depends entirely on the actual image. Since GIF uses a color table to generate the file, settings are specific to each image.

What are you trying to support? There are work arounds for some problems such as IE6.

Not surprising... GIF is a very limited file structure. You're limited to a maximum of 256 colors total... and with transparency... that number shrinks. (You will never get transparency like PNG24, GIF only does index transparency, not alpha... this means no subtle drop shadows and the like).

Shouldn't matter too much in this case... GIF is the problem. heh

Mercurio7899

Ok so your saying I shouldn't bother and just use a work around for IE6?