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Creating Animated Gifs - #5
Transparency cont.

Transparent backgrounds may seem the best way how to blend animations to the background. At times however the end result will not be the expected one. Let us consider the following image:

Frames set not to be removed

As you can clearly see the different frmaes of the animation remained visible. This is a common problem when using transparencies on moving objects. This can be easily solved. One of the options of every gif animation program is the way how the image (frame will be removed from the screen. Usually the current options are available:

  • Do Not Remove
  • To Background Colour
  • To Previous Image

In the above example the animation was set to Do Not Remove. On changing the settings so that each frame is removed To background Colour we achieve the following:

Frames set not to be removed


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