Need help with transparency

[John T]

How do I make the white canvas of the logo transparent while leaving the
text "Focus" white?

[url]http://www.teamfocusinc.com/new_site/index.htm[/url]

John

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <bed17e$854$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"John T" <mmforums@REMOVEcomcast.net> wrote:

> How do I make the white canvas of the logo transparent while leaving the
> text "Focus" white?

Set the Matte color to match your background, then select Alpha
Transparency and export as GIF. Since your background is a gradient,
this won't be easy--you may have to experiment with different yellows
until you find a matte color that's not too problematic.

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
[url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]

[John T]

Lanny,

I did something very similar to your suggestion after thinking about it over
dinner. Basically, I chose a canvas color that works well (*very* light
yellow), picked it as the [index] transparent color, and exported as a GIF.
Worked like a charm!

Thanks for kick-starting my brain. :-)

John


"Lanny Chambers" <lanny@hummingbirds.net> wrote in message
news:lanny-BBFFBB.20321607072003@forums.macromedia.com...

> In article <bed17e$854$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
> "John T" <mmforums@REMOVEcomcast.net> wrote:
>

> > How do I make the white canvas of the logo transparent while leaving the
> > text "Focus" white?

>
> Set the Matte color to match your background, then select Alpha
> Transparency and export as GIF. Since your background is a gradient,
> this won't be easy--you may have to experiment with different yellows
> until you find a matte color that's not too problematic.
>
> --
> Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
> [url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <bedcsd$mk4$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"John T" <mmforums@REMOVEcomcast.net> wrote:

> I did something very similar to your suggestion after thinking about it over
> dinner. Basically, I chose a canvas color that works well (*very* light
> yellow), picked it as the [index] transparent color, and exported as a GIF.
> Worked like a charm!

It's just a different route to the same result. The GIFs exported via
the two methods would be identical. Your solution would have problems,
though, if the same yellow were used in the foreground--you'd get
transparency "pinholes."

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
[url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]