Hey,
i want to replace the repuation pips in my Vbulletin, but they need to be gif's. so when i try and save them from a .tiff to a .gif, it turns black and reduces transparency. I really need these pips to go through, is there a way to make them a gif that has transparency and a high quality like the .tiff?
thanks,
Pops
GIFs have a max of 256 colors and cannot have semi transparent parts/alphablending/roundedges/etc. What are these tiffs you want to save as gifs anyway?
they are cool Star ratings, with a semi-transparent gray background
gifs can't have semi transparents
can i have .png's on my board?
Theoretically you could, but IE doesn't do a great job of supporting PNGs (the transparency is somewhat messed up-- you get a light color where it is supposed to be transparent).
Depends who your target audience is-- will the majority of them use FF?
-NC
IE can't display the alpha channels.
IE can display PNG's properly if the web page includes the info on how to handle the images.
Here's the code for the page.
<head>
<style type="text/css">
img {
behavior: url("pngbehavior.htc");
}
</style>
</head>
Here is my old homepage using the code.
The enter button is a png image.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~rjohnstone/
And here is the htc file.
That may be a work-around, but you shouldn't have to do that.
Here's the link if you want to see more:
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html
It uses ActiveX, which most people should have disabled anyway 
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