How to Create a Transparent GIF in Paintshop Pro
Paint Shop Pro gives users many different ways to manipulate graphics and create new and exciting images. A transparent GIF serves as a useful addition to many different graphics projects. When you use a transparent GIF, you have an image with a transparent portion, often the background. These transparent backgrounds allow you to highlight the focal image without a background distracting form the overall image.
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Instructions
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Open Paint Shop Pro program. Navigate to the graphic image you wish to use or create one using the Paint Shop Pro program.
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Create a simple image to learn this technique by creating a new background layer with dimensions of 200 pixels by 200 pixels. Fill in this background layer with white. Draw a filled oval on the background layer with a different, contrasting color (blue, for example). You should now have a filled oval on a background of white. Merge the layers into one layer.
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Click "File" and then "Save As." Select "GIF" and then select "Options." Set the GIF version to "Version 89a" and select "Noninterlaced."
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Select "Run Optimizer." You will now see a window with a preview pane and five tabs below that enabling you to set various options for your GIF image. Click the "Transparency" tab and select "Areas that match this color." Set that color to white in order to make the background transparent. Set the "Tolerance" to 1.
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Leave the other settings unchanged and click "OK." Enter a name for your GIF image and click "Save." Check to make sure the image has a transparent background by opening it again within the Paint Shop Pro program.
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