Remove White (or any color) from Gif/Image

[joshp19322768]

I have a gif, and I'm trying to remove the back ground (it has a transparent bg when I download it, but  a white bg shows up in AE)

IK most of you are gonna say "change blending mode to multiply" because that what I see everywhere. But that makes my whole gif semi transparent.

Is there a way I can select a color (any color, including white) and make that color transparent or remove that color entirely? I've looked for this everywhere and could not find anything 😕

[Mylenium]

That's what keying is about.

Mylenium

[Rick Gerard]

I would first open the gif in Photoshop and see what you have really got there. Then when you have removed the background or just enabled transparency, export as a movie from Photoshop with transparency. After Effects sucks at gifs. It's almost always the most inefficient tool for the job.

[timcmonkey]

You can open the images in Photoshop and take out the white background there by clicking double clicking on the layer -> blending modes, and play around with the sliders at the bottom, it's a super fast way to do this. but you may have to do it with every frame..

A gif is a sequence of images, and if those images are imported at JPGs then they definitely won't have a transparent background. PNGs do transparency, JPGs don't. Not sure if that's helpful in your case but something good to know.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi JoshP,

Did you solve your transparency issue? Please let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin