: Photoshop multi-layered smart object file–need help converting into.gif For a web project, I've created a multilayered file that contains smart object glyphs. It is basically a PSD with a white

@Cugini998

take the time to remove the background from each smart layer (you will need to convert back to raster), but overall this should not be a long process. when you have each layer on a transparent ground, you can use whatever you want for the background color as bottom layer of the file, and ever after easily change it.

To save turn off all but the current layer and the background color Ctrl Shift Alt S for Save for Web and devices. Here you can decide PNG or GIF, fill in all the appropriate settings. The settings will 'stick', so next Ctrl, shift, Alt S the same settings will be there and you'll only need to hit ok twice.

Almost as fast as having an action set up.

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@Rivera951

My suggestion is to save this images without background (as long as the background is solid color), that is as images with information about transparency (alpha channel). If you'd do that from the start, you woudn't have to re-save them now.

Also I recommend you to drop the GIF format and use PNG instead. PNG allows you to have alpha channel with more than simply opaque/transparent values. Besides PNG files tend to be smaller than analogous GIFs. Mostly it's not a dramatic difference, but still :).

As for the automation of the process three things come to my mind:


Write a script to do that
Distribute your images on bigger canvas and use “Slices” to mark regions to save with “Save for Web”
If “you're Mac” you can take a look at macrabbit.com/layercake/

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