Glow around gif images

This happens to me on occasion and I'm not sure what I'm
doing wrong in the Photoshop process -- but some of my images on my
site will have a soft glow around them, making it impossible to
place images together in a table and appear seemless. Is there a
specific way/format to save website images to avoid it?
What is the BEST way to save images in Photoshop to insure
they appear properly on the site (as well as seemless when placed
next to others?)? If you can be as specific as possible, that would
be a big help. Thanks.

are you getting a colored "halo" around the objects in a
transparent gif?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=photoshop+tutorial+gif+ha
lo
the trick is to make the background mask the approximate
color of any
background the image will be used over on the page.

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A tutorial describing the technique can be fond here:
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/transparent/transparent.htm
(Description of problem posted by Mathias Vejerslev)
A GIF only supports 1-bit transparency - either full transparency or full opaque. - Nothing inbetween. So, if your graphics has anti-aliased (fuzzy) edges, Photoshop has to make those semi-transparent pixels either fully transparent or fully opaque (by removing them, or adding an opaque color 'under' the fuzzy edges. This is the Matte.
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import javax.swing.JComponent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
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Error while loading a logo .gif image to the banner

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I'm looking over the solution provide by Laurent Baresse, refering to the NLS_LANGUAJE problem ... (Thanks Laurent).
Best regards
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Karthika Siva ([email protected]):
Fernando,
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from a gif file. Good luck!
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import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.*;
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import javax.imageio.metadata.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
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    private Point[] offsets;
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I used to do a lot of work in this sort of thing. After a while we were able to convince our bosses to use generated HTML (JSPs, etc.), so the problem moved to porting JavaScript to different platforms! (Platforms in this context means the different browser/OS combinations, etc.).
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Java comes with gif encoder/decoders.
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If you just rescale the image then you will likely cause pixels with the magic "transparent" value to change their value and become normal pixels. Alternately pixels that are not transparent may have their values changed such that they are transparent.
Possibly the easyist solution to to force the image into a full RGBA image. Scale this then perform post processing on the image. I.e convert it back into an indexed image, looking at the values of the alpha channel (prior to making it indexed and if they are high enough then modify the corresponding pixel in the indexed image to have the magic transparent value. Then use Metadata passed to your Image writer to indicate which value is transparent.
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