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Short description for creating GifMasks:
In principle you can use any program which supports a transparency
color for GIF files (Photoshop, Paintshop, Gimp...). Otherwise you can
create a 'normal' 24 bit picture (BMP-file) first (even with Windows
Paint) and define the background color as transparent. This can be
done very simply with IrfanView or GFDGifTool.
IrfanView: Open your BMP file, use save (or save as) and set the file
type to GIF. Make sure that 'Show option dialog' is marked and within
the options dialog: 'Save transparency color' and 'Choose transparency
color during saving' are marked too. Select file name and path and
click 'Save'. Click in the 'Choose transparency color' dialog on any
point in the background.
GFDGifTool: Open your BMP file with 'Add BMP file to list...'. In the
right preview frame click on any point in the background (thus the
transparency color is set and "Make transparent" is activated) and save
the GIF file with 'Save BMP as Gif'.
To use your GifMask (or any downloaded Gifmasks from other sources)
in GfD, you must put then in the GifMask directory within your GfD
installation directory (usually this is C:\Program Files\GUI for
dvdauthor\GifMask). Since GfD version 1.05 you may also put
your GifMask files in an own GifMask directory. This directory is
configured in the Videos+Image settings and saved within the project file.