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Continha332
Continha332
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June 19, 2019
Question

Export GIF with Opacity

  • June 19, 2019
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Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to export a gif with like a 70% of opacity in the background, so that if i put it hover a video i can still see behind the gif.

Hope you can help me,

Continha

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Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2019

Hi continha332:

No. GIF supports index transparency—it's either transparent or not. Export to  PNG with Transparency checked, which supports alpha transparency—varying amounts of transparency.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2019

No, gif is a very bad file format for doing that. You should use either PNG (24bits with transparency), TIFF or a Photoshop file.

GIF is a (very) old outdated format that should not be used anymore for still images as it has very severe limitations. It may still be used to produce small animations, but there also, you should avoid where ever possible.

What editing program are you using? I will move for now from Forum comments​ to Premiere Pro​.

If you take a full coloured rectangle like in your example, you can also apply the transparency with your editing program.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Continha332
Continha332Author
Participant
June 19, 2019

I made an animation with After Effects for a Twitch overlay, this animation has some opacity so that people can still see a little bit behind this overlay. I need now to convert it to GIF so that it loops all the time during the livestream. Is there any other format where I can do it?

K
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Kenneth KawamotoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2019

OK, if that fits the needs of OP... It will be transparent as a whole than...


From what I gather, OBS has chroma key and alpha mask to control the opacity, so many things can be achieved I think - but this is out of scope of this forum

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Anonymous
June 19, 2019

Hi

You posted in the forum comments section, if you tell us which application you're using we can move it to the appropriate forum

Continha332
Continha332Author
Participant
June 19, 2019

Hi,

sorry its my first time here, im using Photoshop CC

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Anonymous
June 19, 2019

No worries I'll move it for you

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