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Garooob's signature has gotten a lot of compliments in the French forum:
garooob a écrit:célia a écrit:merci du compliment, et je te le retourne parce que moi j'adore ta signature
I have to admit, it was made by kagetsu....
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Kags: I have had nothing BUT trouble with GIFs and transparency until I settled down to using The GIMP. It has a glorious thing called "indexed" colors that lets you completely control what colors go into the GIF -- a perfect match because GIF is a file-algorithm that works just like the indexed colors do.
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Furthermore, The GIMP doesn't insist on maintaining a non-transparent background layer, or for that matter, ANY formal background layer if you don't want one. I had a lot of trouble with programs like GIF Animator INSISTING on dithering or anti-aliasing my graphics when writing the GIF file, which makes a mess of graphics with transparent areas, because faint dithered pixels show up as bright white garbage against backgrounds like yumi2004's 2E425A color. I had to spend hours cleaning up the stray pixels, only to have new ones re-appear with the next GIF save. It was truly heartbreaking! I think some of that is visible on Kiwi's back and snout in my earlier, non-GIMP door-butting smiley if you look closely:
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...but with The GIMP you have TOTAL control over how many, and what, (indexed) colors appear, and you can absolutely prevent any dithering and anti-aliasing. You can reduce the number of colors by combining similar ones, and, wonder of wonders, change all instances of a color in your graphic to another shade or color in one maneuver!
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This only scratches the surface. I could go on and on about the advantages of The GIMP, especially for anyone messing around with transparency and GIFs. It's glorious, I tell you -- glorious!

(And it's good, too....)