Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 351
Previewing and controlling dithering, Creating background matting in JPEG, images
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 341 User Guide To create hard-edged transparency in a GIF or PNG-8: 1 Open or create an image that contains transparency. 2 In the Optimize panel/palette, select GIF or PNG-8 from the File Format menu. 3 Select Transparency. 4 Select None from the Matte pop-up menu to make all pixels with greater than 50% transparency fully transparent, and all pixels with 50% or less transparency fully opaque. 3 Select a color from the Matte pop-up menu: • (Photoshop) Select None, Eyedropper (to use the color in the eyedropper sample box), White, Black, or Other (using the color picker). • (ImageReady) Select None, Foreground Color, Background Color, or Other (using the color picker), or select a color from the Matte pop-up palette. Note: When you select None, white is used as the matte color. Creating background matting in JPEG images When creating a JPEG from an original image that contains layer transparency, you must matte the image against a matte color. Since the JPEG format does not support transparency, blending with a matte color is the only way to create the appearance of background transparency in a JPEG. Fully transparent pixels are filled with the matte color, and partially transparent pixels are blended with the matte color. When the JPEG is placed on a Web page with a background that matches the matte color, the image appears to blend with the Web page background. To create a matted JPEG image: 1 Open or create an image that contains transparency. 2 In the Optimize panel/palette, select JPEG from the file format menu. Previewing and controlling dithering Most images viewed on the Web are created using 24-bit color displays (millions of colors mode), but many Web browsers are used on computers using only 8-bit color displays (256-color mode), so that Web images often contain colors not available to many Web browsers. Computers use a technique called dithering to simulate colors not available in the color display system. Dithering creates adjacent pixels of different colors to give the appearance of a third color. For example, a red color and a yellow color may dither in a mosaic pattern to produce the illusion of an orange color that does not appear in the color palette.