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jonathanhou
08-16-2006, 11:48 PM
I have a .gif image that I would like to change the background on. Any ideas on how to do this? :confused: This is a .gif image with 15 slides.
I have Adobe After Effects 5.5, Adobe ImageReady 7.0, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, and Adobe Illustrator 10 if any of these would help.
Thanks in advance for your help.
CWhitlow
08-17-2006, 02:55 AM
You should be able to do so in Adobe ImageReady, however, from my understanding there is going to be some manual labor involved.
For a better and professional result, you should have the genuine PSD format of that gif, otherwise you must perform some very laborious manually "detachment" operations.
snowf22
08-25-2006, 07:12 AM
I can do it on Photoshop, but I usually need to see the image first. Maybe you could use the magic wand, select and delete the background. Then you might be able to use the bucket tool to fill it. Any pixels spread out-just change the paintbrush to size one, zoom in and do one by one. :D I've done it before for my website.
http://www.dollie-neo.net.tf
I can do it on Photoshop, but I usually need to see the image first. Maybe you could use the magic wand, select and delete the background. Then you might be able to use the bucket tool to fill it. Any pixels spread out-just change the paintbrush to size one, zoom in and do one by one. :D I've done it before for my website.
http://www.dollie-neo.net.tf
Yes, but usually the pic/draw has an antialising small "border" in keeping with the background and you can not (or is quite difficult) to find the proper tolerance of the magic wand in order to erase the antialising border as well. Some small pixe-by-pixel manual corrections are to be done afterwards.
Anyway, yes, this is the way to do it, if no genuine PSD file.
Poxicator
08-25-2006, 10:21 AM
make your selection via the magic wand or Colour Range filter and fill with new colour (or delete original colour and have the new background colour on a layer below the image). If you fill repeatedly you may find this removes the fringing of the original colour OR feather your selection and fill. You may find expanding your selection by 1 pixel and feathering by 1 pixel helps.
A little hard to give you a definite process without seeing the gif but hopefully this method will achieve your aims.
jonathanhou
08-25-2006, 11:50 AM
Thank you all for your advice. I will try it out.
Thanks again. :)