transparency not working correctly in in photoshop
January 29th, 2020
If you have a look at this url here, you will notice that at the end, the car simply appears quickly in a split second, (blinks) But its meant to slowly fade in, not blink.
When i play the animated gif in Photoshop, everything works fine, but it just doesn’t want to save correctly?
http://f.imagehost.org/0277/impala-siggy.gif
Can anyone help please
here`s an example of fade / Opacity, not working
setting photshop to default settings did not fix the problem.
Hmm… Gif is not best solution for Images with opacity, thats why you experience this problem.
(PNG, 24bit is the best solution, but yeah, it cant handle animation)
Try to put some color at the background, just to see, then export your image
your images are not faded
are you working in indexed color ?
1st, your images are out of sequence and the is no “faded” frames
you need to create the fade in each frame before you compile the image
get animagic in apps section
animation/unoptimize then export (file/save) the frames
to see the sequence
I forgot to mention that it once USED to work fine, but now it does not.
, Im working in RGB colour.
When I view the animation inside photoshop, everything works fine… my image fades in and/or fades out perfectly, but when i go to save it, and preview the animation while in the save window, it fails to present it self properly.
This animation works perfectly fine.
Its just two layers, black and white, and the white fades out slowly. (iv also added in some movement for fun)
I have no idea why this is working, while my other stuff isn’t.
….
Edit: iv added a white background to my siggy, and the fade in works fine now, but i dont want the white background, and its weird because it didnt always have this sort of ‘issue’.
Could it be my GPU?
This is caused by GIF file format.
Imagine 1×1 px gif image.
It can be eighter fully transparent, or fully filled with a color. It cant be something in the middle, 50% of transparency, 50% of color. GIF cant handle it. There is no semi-transparecny. Therefore, you cant use shades.
To keep “shades”, you must create background layer and fill it, use your desired color. Then There will be “shade”.
Exactly like on the picure above!
it doesnt make sense though, because iv made images with fade, and no background in photoshop before with NO trouble
(animated gifs i mean)
There are various export options when exporting to GIF.
Try to play with them, maybe you will succed
When selecting “diffusion transparency differ” it sort of works, but its really ugly, and no where near to what its supposed to look like, and how it used to once WORK.
iv even re-installed Photoshop with no luck.
I hope you will figure it out
GIF’s are indexed color (256 colors)
RGB is 16.8 million colors
the problem may arise because of the conversion from RGB to indexed
try converting to indexed color before creating the animation
The problem with converting to indexed colours, is that it asks me to merge layers and remove hidden layers, and I can either select yes, or cancel, and if i merge layers, then there can be no animation.
Anyway, that got me thinking. I tried every other colour mode, failed….. then tried different bit / channels, failed.
BUT, when i went to save, I noticed a ‘preset’ option in the save window, and tried them all out and it SORT of gave me the result I wanted.
When i think back (a long way back).. Maybe i never realised the quality of my old gifs, as they were on very light (close to white) backgrounds.
PS, thanks for all the help guys
here you can easily see there is a slight white background before the image fades in.
anyway, point is that i never noticed that before. .. i think. (maybe i just forgot)
… dam gif.
So I hear there is a very un-used PNG format that allows animation too.