# Transparency question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-question/254838>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 16, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-question/254838 "2008-03-16T03:43:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![zacus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/278dde/32.png) [@zacus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zacus)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-question/254838/1 "2008-03-16T03:43:05Z")

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Hey everyone i just have a quick question regarding transparency :hangover:

I tried saving an image as a .gif to give it a transparent background, but it seemed to greatly reduce the image quality in the parts of the image which are blending to transparency, see [http://www.geocities.com/waqkum/Shudder-Productions.html](http://www.geocities.com/waqkum/Shudder-Productions.html)

The original image (well what you need to see to get my point anyway) can be found here, [http://www.geocities.com/waqkum/Layout3jpg.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/waqkum/Layout3jpg.jpg)

Im using photoshop cs2 at the moment, is there anything i can do or a different format i can use which will make this work better? thanks 🙂