Someting I often wish I could do is render the white background on a .gif logo/file transparent, so I could paste it over other layers nicely without that white rectangle!
Is there an obvious way to do this?
Thanks for help
Using Photoshop 6
When you're all through making the graphic look the way you want, change the image to Indexed color:
Image->Mode->Indexed Color
Then export it as a .gif:
File->Export->Gif 89a Export
This will give you a popup box where you can select which colors to make transparent.
Two additional hints:
- If the image is going to go on a dark background, create it that way. Otherwise you'll end up with a very noticable light colored halo around the visible edge of the image.
- Choose a color for the background (that you're going to make transparent) that isn't in the image. Otherwise anywhere the now transparent background color appears in the image will be transparent too. A lot of times this is no big deal, but I've seen in ruin an otherwise good image.