QUESTION
You recommended a PC program called GIFTRANS to help create graphics with transparent backgrounds. I have the program, but for the life of me, can't figure out how to USE it. Help!
ANSWER

Ahhh... the giftrans program was written for the Unix system and someone did a very simple port to the MSDOS environment, so indeed it's quite tricky to use. Fortunately I've found some online documentation and converted it so that it'd be readable here on the Web.

here's the GIFTRANS documentation

Note that you can print the page out or save it as 'text' from within your favorite browser. Best of luck!