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Ian Mack
March 29th, 2007, 05:11 PM
I have been having alot of trouble with this...any opinions on what I could do to solve the issue of those little grey-white pixels would be most appreciated!

1. I'm working from a base image in freehand and exporting it as a jpeg.
2. I bring that into photoshop and crop away the extra white space (?) around the image.
3. I resize it to the req. size (561x561 pixels).
4. I use the magic wand; select the four outer areas and inverse selection, then cut that out and insert it into a gif with a transparent bg. It has to have be transparent as the req. image is circular

Attached is an image illustrating the problem I'm having with white speckles (look at the border between the black and the pink.

Sorry about it not being bigger or clearer but I think I'm still under NDA on this one. My Freehand won't export to .gif either. o_O

Reiem
March 29th, 2007, 08:50 PM
Maybe you don't have 'contiguous' checked in your wand and it's selecting other areas. Why don't you try exporting an eps from FH and opening it in PS? Maybe the jpeg compression is causing artifacts in those borders, in this way you can get rid of them.