Transperant Program?

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Angel_Light

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.

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

16+8=24

Originally Posted by Knightmare1

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

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

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[Angel_Light]

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?

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Angel_Light

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

[cbk1994]

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.

[ArushenP2P]

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