[SOLVED] Transparent Image with Drop Shadows

[centerwork]

Here is what I was wondering. Is there an way to get a nice clean drop shadow on a transparent image with out getting that disgusting white border around it or by coping the site background onto the image?

 

I know you can with 24bit png. But, older browsers add a light background to the hold image frame area.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

thank you,

Charlie.

[Daniel0]

Something that's transparent doesn't have a shadow. The light kind of shines through it you know

[zq29]

Not going to happen, GIF files do not support alpha transparency, and only have a limited pallette of 256 colours. Although pointless, you can actually change the colour of the background on older browsers - Its the secondry/background colour set in your graphics package.

[CroNiX]

There are javascript solutions for this.  They check the browser/version and if its an unsupported version of png w/alpha (like IE6) then it fixes them for that image. Search for 'PNGFIX'. 

[centerwork]

Thanks. That give me a good place to start.