Manu~ Thanks for the advice, but one thing I failed to mention is that I no longer have all of those frames saved to my computer, only the finished piece. Is it still possibly to edit with imageready?
If you have Photoshop, as you said in another post, chances are you also have ImageReady. (you can access it by clicking that funny button at the bottom of your Photoshop tools palette).
Open the anim in IR. Click the first frame in the Animation palette, then click the 1st layer in the layer palette. Use the Magic Eraser (hidden behind the normal eraser, tools palette) on the bg, making sure 'contiguous' is checked and other options unchecked, 'tolerance' at 0. Repeat for each frame and layer. Then check 'transparency' in the Optimisation palette; check other color options ('personalized'); then File/Save an optimised copy as...
Tool and menu names are translated from French: sorry if they're not exactly as I say.
I checked, it works, I did it for the first 3 frames.
@ ABLazer: 'when drawing potentially transparent piece we use a color which will be used nowhere on the picture.' In fact, I'm afraid this has a drawback, some software such as ACDSee will display the original color instead of transp. At least that's how I explain that it usually displays various bright colors, or black, instead of transp bgs.
Does it feature a tool for recoloring (like paint bucket)? If not, personally I would not bother with changing background, as it is long and boring and not very creative process.
Aww..rats.. the next thing I can do is use the tool my animator already offers, but I'd still have to add the new color in each frame individually. I use easy gif animator by karlis blumentals.
I think that it is not.
By the way, how you done GIF? Maybe there are programs which do editing of animated GIFs easier than the rest.
is it possible to use iaza to take out only the outer layer of white transparent and not the inner? DX
It would be so much better if I could do that.
Ah, those were supposed to be short stubby legs. XD But in order to change him I'd have to tweak all 98 frames. DX
That's why when drawing potentially transparent piece we use a color which will be used nowhere on the picture.
Personally I can perfectly live with white background. And animations are good. But a guy at the left could use some work, especially his legs - it's looking like he sits on his knees but the rest of legs are not seen. Which is quite scary.
Oh no, using iaza is making it layer!!! DX It took out ALL the white.
I guess I'm going to have to put the original file up with the white..I don't know what to do. Going into each frame and editing it to transparent would be extremely time consuming. DX
Yes, precisely!
As I said, I tried it and it works. You will find IR is not exactly your friendly, intuitive soft, though. But it's worth getting used to it, because of its ability to animate layered pics.
And: always, always, always save and backup.... esp PA images, they're so light on your disk.