Female. Right. We did discuss this a while back. I am old and ailing in the head.
Okay. GIF transparency works not by the wonders of ALPHA CHANNEL but by taking one of the 256 Max colours and dedicating it as TRANSPARENT. I don't know free hand. In Photoshop, the PSD file's blank area is assigned a TRANSPARENT value when you choose to save it as a GIF with transparency.
So (guessing away here)
1) see if FreeHand has the ability when saving to GIF to convert the ALPHA to TRANSPARENCY, or if it has a way to assign one of the GIF colours to TRANSPARENCY.
2) save the image in FreeHand (why does that sound SEXY to me?) as a TIFF with ALPHA and bring it into Photoshop (if you have it) and then SAVE FOR WEB and choose the white background to be transparent. In PS 7, (maybe earlier - I forget) CS, and CS2 you can choose a TRANSPARENCY DITHER and that helps minimize those ugly white FUZZIES at the edge of the transparent zone.
I hope this helps, and I shall now go take an extra dose of Viagra so that I might more quickly remember your POWERS AS A WOMAN next time we meet!
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