Which program are you using?
And GIF always results in a loss of colour, I wouldn't worry too much.
But as long as there is no background colour at the time of saving then it should stay transparent...
Feel free to save my smiley onto your computer to tear it apart, sort of thing... Express your inner engineer!
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