Banner gradient help

[designer]

How can I make a gradient from a color to transparant in photoshop? And if I have made a banner with a transparant background in PS and I put it in dreamweaver, the transparant part will be ligt grey/blue . Can someone help me?!

Thank YoU!

 

[mstwntd]

Hi the only format I know that supports this sort of transparency is PNG. However, because of stupid IE's lack of support for the PNG, it is out of the picture.

You will to add a layer (in PS) with the colour which the banner will be placed on under your transparent gradient and save it like that.

 

[adam_uk]

Originally posted by mstwntd
Hi the only format I know that supports this sort of transparency is PNG. However, because of stupid IE's lack of support for the PNG, it is out of the picture.

wrong. you can get a alpha transparency addon for your sites that work

if you go into your gradient properties you should see your chosen color fading into another color
in this example chhosen color is black

and see attached image

 

[mstwntd]

adam,

If you read my post even more carefully you will see that i wrote "The only format I know!!"

Where exactly am I wrong?

Your gradient solution is more or less the same.

I would also like to see an example of this addon you're talking about. In his case it's a banner which generally goes on other peoples sites and you think they all have this addon?

 

[adam_uk]

the way i read your post you was saying you can get transparency on pngs with ie, but you can, if i mis understood what you i am sorry

the addon doesnt require the users to install anything they wont even notice that anythings happened if its installed on pages correctly

it loads a module kind of thing into the page

i kinda skim read this post how ever it my previos bit will let him make a gradient to transparency

to get png transparency working on ie you need to use this
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html

if this is attachted properly any transparency on a png will appear transparent and not the grey blue that it shows