white crust transparency problem

[godgryphon]

Hello, i have a big problem. I made a 3d rupee, but it has this white crust around it.i made the animation in swift 3d, but put the .png frames together in jasc animation shop.and also, i cant get the framerate of my gifs right, it always ends up the same when saved, but in jasc i can make it any speed i want. please help. a picture of the rupee is below.



http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3081/redrupeeanimationfw4.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Fierce Deity]

Well, I can't tell you how to NOT make the white crust, because I don't even know how you made that, and I'd be interested to learn. For some reason, when I try to remove the white crust, it gets removed. I can view it with a black background in fireworks and see nothing white there. But, when I export it, it comes out like this:

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/lilbill0005/RedRupee.gif

I'd say, that your animation is cursed. I'm saved my project as a PNG, so I'm going to see if there's a way I can export it and it will not come out looking like crap. ☻

[godgryphon]

so, you removed that with fireworks?

[Fierce Deity]

so, you removed that with fireworks?

Sorta. It worked, but only in Fireworks. I can't figure out an export setting to keep it that way.

[Iconoclast]

No, no, no! Jasc Animation Shop also has an option to reduce the white crust. However, no program is perfect at doing this, because computers aren't magic. The real way to do it is to erase those white pixels, one by one. I am used to this sort of thing, so if you send me the original MNG before you saved it in GIF format, I will fix it for you. It's too difficult to explain, so you'll have to let me try if you want it fixed. FD also cheated and tried to use the Magic Wand method I see, so to conclude, there is no perfect solution to your problem other than to erase the pixels, one by one. I can do this quickly. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS YOURSELF; you will do it wrong.

The reason you got white crust around your rupee animation is because your animation contained partially transparent pixels, meaning you can slightly see through them, though they still have an RGBA color value. Now, GIF does not support partially transparent pixels, so when you saved as a GIF, those white but semitransparent pixels which made the rupee's edges look smooth...turned into purely opaque and white pixels, causing crust.

[godgryphon]

i used fireworks' color replace tool and it worked great. i have the image below, its gonna be new in my signature, if i could get it transparent, it would be way better.


http://img313.imageshack.us/img313/8469/redrupeeanimationfirewoye3.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Fierce Deity]

Actually, mine would be better if I remembered to take the background off. I did it sorta half-assed in like 5 minutes, so, yeah.... I didn't know that there was any transparancy in it, or I'd have changed the document's allowed transparency to 100, thereby making everything visible, and then magic wand it to death, and then take the black BG off. I would like to get my hands on Jasc though, it'd be fun.

[Fierce Deity]

Try this, I guess....

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/lilbill0005/RedRupee-1.gif

[Fierce Deity]

There's like one frame there that's messed up and has white in it, I don't know why.

[Iconoclast]

Well, you know what they say. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j112/rswedlo/GIF%20Animations/RedRupee-1.gif

The Magic Wand tool is the easy way out. If you use it, your crust removal will almost certainly be imperfect, unless you have the Tolerance setting set to the right exact number! I just erased all of the crust pixel by pixel, and replaced invalid pixels with those of proper RGB value.

My unfaithfulness in teaching has a reason behind it. Possibly a method.

FD, if you want Jasc Animation Shop, contact Kirsdarke; he can help you get it.