Hi
again Bejon!
OK,
so that one didn't work, not a
problem! There are 3 other ways I've
come up with :o)
This
one
is really easy and I don't know why I
didn't think of it before! lol
Open
up the original .gif you saved (if you
don't have it any more, open up your .psp
image and save it as a .gif). I
totally forgot to save even the .psp file
so I'm going to have to make it again,
just bear with me, hold on...
Okey
dokes, all sorted now... oops! lol
First
off, we need to get our colours back
again, so go to "Colours" then
down to "Increase Colour Depth"
then across to "16 Million Colours"
Now
we're going to give it a transparent
background without using the wizard (and
hopefully without the specks).
Go
back up to the "Colours" menu,
then down to "Set Palette
Transparency"
A
little dialogue box will come up saying
about decreasing the colours again... you
need to make sure you've got these
settings in that box:
Palette
box: "Optimized Median
Cut" is chosen
Reduction method box: "Nearest
colour" is chosen
Options box: nothing checked, no
settings
When
you've got that set, hit
"OK". Another little box
will come up that asks about the
transparency of your image. Click
and drag that box out of the way so that
you can see your image again:
Hover
over your image - the cursor will change
into a dropper. Click somewhere on
your solid background and PSP will
automatically change itself so that it
chooses the 3rd option, puts a number in
the box for you and puts the colour in the
box on the right. Hit
"OK":
Doesn't
look much different huh? Don't
worry, it *is* different... PSP is just
playing hide and seek <grin>
Go
back to the "Colours" menu, then
down to "View Palette
Transparency"
Looks
a bit different now huh?
:o)
Save
it as a .gif and follow Patti's tutorial
the rest of the way to animate it :o)
If
this one didn't work either, that's OK,
there's still another 2 ways to do it -
just let me know and I'll write them up
for you... they are more complicated than
these last 2 so I just want to be sure
that these 2 ways don't work first :o)
