Cleaning up the Fringe when making Transparent GIF's

• You will need this file to make your transparent gif

1. Open up the your file in Photoshop. Click :Layer=>New=> Layer from Background

2. Use the magnetic lasso tool with antialias UNchecked to click around the outline of the goose you want to isolate for your transparent gif.

3. When you have encircled your image, click the mask button in the bottom of the layers palette. Adjust the mask by using black on the mask to hide areas and white to show areas.

4. When you have the mask adjusted, right click on the mask and select "apply mask"

5. We now need to remove the white fringe around the image. Click Layer=>Matting=> Remove white matte

6. There are still pixels around the image that are nearly white. We will need to blend them with the rest of the image. Click Layer=> Matting=>Defringe. Set the defringe to the number of pixels you believe you need to affect a change in from the outside the image. This more or less blends the colors from inside the image to outside, say 10 pixels in this example.

No work on fringe or halo

Removed the white matte

Defringe by 10

7. Crop your image by using the Rectangular marquee and clicking Image => Crop.

8. Saving your image: Click File=>Save for the web as.

• Set the image type to GIF
• Check the box for transparency
• Set the colors to web colors, the color number will be automatic. In this case, my image came up with 36 colors.
• Image size inspection: At 36 colors my image is 5k, located on the lower left of the image.
• Adjust the download size of the image by adjusting the lossy, dither and the number of colors. Object is to adjust these so that you can not see a difference in the image, yet get a reduced file size.