[restandeffect]

hello everyone, i'm having a little trouble getting a good looking gif of some text w/ transparency. you can see my current product at http://www.restandeffect.com/almostp2p/preambleh3.gif

any recommendations? if it helps, this will be on a white background, but i have some other issues w/ some text that is a off-white and resides over green.

thanks in advance.

[sub]

If the text is going to sit on a white background why does it need to have a transparency? Also, if you're using a standard sans-serif font why not just create the text in html?

24bit PNG will achieve the best effect for transparent images. This will retain all of the anti-aliasing/shading in a similar way to a layered Photoshop file. The drawbacks with this file format are that they usually outputs at a much larger file size than a 8bit/Gif image and there are display issues to address for PC screen display.

[gregor]

assuming yr using photoshop: make sure when saving as a transparent gif that you set the matte colour to the background colour that the gif will overlay ... so in this case, white.

[Dusteh]

Looks like someone is making a CSSZenGarden skin?

[LadynRed]

The biggest problem with using PNG's is that IE 6 and below do NOT support PNG transparency. IE 7 is supposed to support it. I'd stick with the matting on a GIF.

[transparent_opacity]

Originally Posted by LadynRed

The biggest problem with using PNG's is that IE 6 and below do NOT support PNG transparency. IE 7 is supposed to support it. I'd stick with the matting on a GIF.

...But IE has enough expressions to make it work as it should. Search

[restandeffect]

Originally Posted by cw_w3dgk

...But IE has enough expressions to make it work as it should. Search

i don't design for ie first. i hope not many ppl do. and yes it is a zen garden submission... well possibly. lol... nehow... png's are chunky files so i'll stray unless i'm embedding a png into flash then it's okay.

but yes, this is most practical for a gif. i'll try the matte background colour but there must be a better way, i've seen too many perfect gif's w/ transparency over multiple colours and this can't be the 'gist of solutions.

the reason i'm using the image is because only about 75% of users have georgia, and i'm quite picky so times will not be a sufficient substitute for me. btw: does anyone kno wut font this site uses by default?

[pgo]

Originally Posted by restandeffect

btw: does anyone kno wut font this site uses by default?

font: 10pt "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;;

Oli, you've got an extra semicolon. Fix it sonny.

Also, IE7 does indeed support PNG alpha transparency. Oh happy day.

I think you'll be safe using Georgia as a web font. Anytime I've used it, I've gone:

font: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

As you said, Georgia will cover a large majority of people and the rest will probably have Times installed. If not, they'll get whatever their default serif is.