how to make an opaque gif

TeresaScott · #1 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 05:52 PM

I was wondering if anyone knows how to make an opaque gif? I have a site with a background image and I would like to have an overlapping image which is about 50% opaque (not completely transparent) to the image behind it. Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about accomplishing this in Photoshop cs? Thanks so much for reading my problem.

JoanOs · #2 (**permalink**) 03-01-2006, 04:38 PM

If you refer to the HELP in photoshop and go to the index, find
TRANSPARENCY topics and that should guide you through it.

Leprakawn · #3 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 03:20 AM

If the help does not support you, what you could do--might be a little tricky--is get the corrdinates of the img's location on the page, and copy those pixels from the bg, and just put that as the bg layer in the img with the overlapping layer set at 50%. However, I think that will only work if that page does not scroll.

I have been frustrated with this issue before, but I have no recollection of what I did to solve it!