Shadow F/X

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mlski
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Shadow F/X

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I applied the shadow effect to a graphic - but when I went to output it - it was gone. Tried with 2 different IMs - Arbor & Koyaa. With both I got the effect I wanted in "view" but once I outputted the graphic as a gif - the shadow effect was gone and I was left with the original graphic again.

What am I doing wrong?
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Re: Shadow F/X

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Any answers?
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Re: Shadow F/X

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Shadow is semi-transparent. It will only work if you either 'flatten' the image onto some background or you save in a format that handles semi-transparent colors.

GIF can not handle semi-transparency (only full transparency
JPEG can not handle transparency AT ALL

The only common format that truely handles semi-transparency is PNG.

Save you image as PNG, or flatten it to some color or image background.
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