Transperant Program?
 

i hate having limited colors with .gif, but thats the only type of image i can transperant.. is there a program thats free that can transperant?

Giffy?

Gif has 256 colors...how is that not enough for graal

256 is more than enough for pixel-art... but anyways. GIMP.

wenever i use .gif it makes my colors dissapear.. i take so much time shading them and then they go all ****ty when i save it to .gif.

Use a better program to safe as gif. I never tried it for saving gif files, but try IrfanView ;o Supports transparency, too.

If you save .gif files with MS Paint colors all get messy, this also happens if you work with a filetype that is not jpg/jpeg and then save it as .jpg/.jpeg

Download giffy, save it as a 24 bit BMP, in paint, then convert to GIF in Giffy, open it again, and transparent it :)
That's what I have to do now, I miss my Windows Photo Editor...It was a piece of crap, but it at least let me semi-trans things, and trans more than one thing at a time...

Find a program that will save in 24BIT PNG. This format supports alpha transparencies as well as solid transparencies.

Photoshop CS1+ supports functioning 24BIT PNGs.

nice!!!! and i have Windows Photo Editor...

Use IrfanView, it works great for saving PNGs. Just make a BMP and then open it and save it as a PNG with transparency.

Don't forget the popular 7.0 :<

Photoshop 7 doesn't save PNG 24BIT properly, which results in PNGs that don't work in Graal.

24 bit doesnt have transparency, all .gifs will lose colors if you use colors outside the 8 bit range, I recommend .png over .gif. But .gif can be useful for simple images, and animations. save to 8 bit Pngs. Gimp can do this I believe, there is a list of programs in the lounge.

i can save it to .bmp and use giffy to make it .gif and it wont lose any colors!

The reason I mention 24 bit PNGs is because they support 16bit color and 8 bit alpha masking.

16+8=24
Welcome to real life, where BMP is able to save in 24bit color and GIF can only save to 8bit.

The dunce caps in the corner are free, but I'm afraid it's a BYOB party.

ON the 8 bit standards though, I though 24bit cant have since 8 bits are for each Color (Red, Green, Blue) and an additional 8 bits for alpha which would make it 32 bit, am I correct or am I missing something?

Varying bit-depths are not static, they're logarithmic. Each color (RGB) doesn't occupy entire an octet, they occupy a entry in the bit set.

Bit....07..06..05..04 03..02..01..00
Data...R....R...R...G...G...G....B...B

Why would you use Giffy to save a GIF when you can use IrfanView to save a PNG? If you can afford it, I prefer Fireworks, but Photoshop works aswell.

I use Giffy and that program Graal attached with their folder. MNG thingy.