Photoshop Question

[gragland]

I have a gif logo which was on a pink background, I wanted to change the background color, but the logo has a thin pink border around it. The pink border fades from white (the color of the logo) to dark pink (the color of the background), which basiacally makes it blend in with the background instead of looking jagged. What I want to do is make the pink pixels around the logo transparent, but I want each pixels transparency to coorelate to the shade of pink it is. Then I plan to save it as a png, and then I can put the logo on any color background and it will blend it. Anyone know how I can do this?

[nobody]

That's a lot to explain. Is there any way you could post the image? I could take a shot and doing what you're asking and tell you how I accomplished it, if you're interested :)

[iLikePie]

welcome to photoshop masking! What you're trying to do is the same thing as people experience when they try to remove a person from a background, for example.

basically, as far as i know there IS NO easy one-click solution, you're gonna have to get in there and manually edit the picture, but there are a few things that'll help you.

first, if you've ever used the Feather command on a selection before, you'll know it gradually becomes transparent, so you could make a selection around the logo, feather the selection and then delete the b/g and see if it looks at all decent.

otherwise, put the image in mask mode, grab a soft brush and start chipping away at those edges... you'll be able to kinda control the opacity because of the soft edges of the brush and it'll just take some time.

if you show us the image there might be a better way taht's specific to the shape you have.

[gragland]

http://83.142.226.211/matt/newlogo.gif
http://83.142.226.211/matt/nav/nav.gif

The logos and the icon I want to have fade into a background that is #111111 color. Here's the site you can see them on now: http://www.last.fm/

And before someone asks why I'm messing around with someone else logo and icons, im making another color scheme for last.fm that people can use greasemonkey (firefox extension) to load instead of the real stylesheet.

[iLikePie]

so do you already know what color the b/g around the logo will be?

because if so, you can just play around with "hue/saturation" or similar effect to change the pink without even worrying about selections and such....