The image is a business logo, too small and complex to effectively 
"lassoo". 
It's meant to sit on a web page with a background image, not a plain colour.
Before the client decided on the bg image, I was able to colour the 
logo's background so that it blended into the page.
Information changes on the page, so the logo will occasionally move: the 
black foreground lines of the logo can't be stamped over a portion of 
the background image because as the logo moves around the page, that 
stamped background won't always be in-sync with the page's overall 
background.
So I went looking for information on how to make a Gif 89a image -- an 
image with a transparent border. 
The information in the Help files doesn't make sense to me.  It refers 
to things that I cannot find in the menus.
That's why I came here and asked for help finding the path to the menu 
that allows me to set the background of the image to transparent, and 
save the file as Gif 89a.


Connie Chisum wrote:
> Can't you just move your picture to a transparent background and then save
> as a gif??
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi
>
> Would someone please show me how to access "Photoshop Optimization panel 
> for GIF format"
>
> The "Help" files say  "A. File format menu B. Color Reduction Algorithm 
> menu C. Dither Algorithm menu D. Transparency dithering menu E. Optimize 
> menu"
>
> Apparently that means I'm to follow those steps in opening the menu I need.
>
> But I don't see "file format" or File/format, I don't know what those 
> instructions are talking about.
>
> I want to make a GIF's background transparent.  How do I find the menu 
> that lets me do that?
>
> Thanks

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