Transparent Gifs in Lightroom

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October 20, 2019
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When I select a Gif file with transparency in Lightroom, then choose Edit in Photoshop, when the file opens in Photoshop it has a white background rather than transparency. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workround?

TIA

Graeme

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JohanElzenga

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99jon

Legend

Are you using Lightroom Classic?

Transparency is on by default when using export. See if my YouTube video helps.

https://youtu.be/0Q-5k6Y-Qc8

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friendlydrag0nAuthor

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Thank you for that.

I'm not using Classic – I only recently subscribed to Photoshop, so I gained access to both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic together, and had no idea which to use, so I chose Lightroom at random. Do you think I should be using Classic instead? Its name suggests it might not be supported indefinitely...

My immediate problem, though, is that I want to find an image in Lightroom, open it in Photoshop, copy the non-transparent part of the image and paste it into a Photoshop composite. Opening via Edit In Photoshop shows the image on a white background instead of a transparent one – surely there's an easy way to find an image in Lightroom then actually OPEN it in Photoshop?

99jon

Legend

Classic would not help unless you are using the PNG format. For a Gif I would suggest opening directly in Photoshop. Opening from Lightroom simply exports a tiff format.

Use the Photoshop menu:

File >> Open and navigate to choose your gif.

Try using the menu:

Image >> Trim >> Transparent Pixels

However if you are using an animated gif you will see layer for every frame.

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