Which photoshop?

doren — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:33:34 +0000

You didn't mention the version. New versions come with ImageReady which does the job nicer.

However you should be able to:

1) click twice on the background layer. Change the name from background to layer 0 or anything but background.
2) You can now select and delete the background leaving it transparent.
3) File>Export>gif89a export will give you a cruder version than image ready.

there is also a nice plugin that does a better job, forgot the name, might be shareware. Or cheapware. Look around on the net.

Try this

NSS — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 08:36:01 +0000

Open your image in PSP,

1)Color Menu -> select Increase Color Depth to 16 Million Colors(24 bit)

2)Color Menu -> select Set Transparaency -> set 256 color
-> Yes -> Optimize -> Yes -> Set the Transparency Value To The Current Value -> OK

Make sure your background and foreground color is set to white

Save image -> Done

Hope this helps

Brian Farkas — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 03:09:20 +0000

First of all, when you are setting transparent colors you want to avoid the white outlines around them, so you should put the background as a color that's close to the background color the image is going to be on.

It now sounds like you're trying to put the image on a new background. In that case, try using the magic wand tool and selecting everything but the object, then press delete. Then, you can drag the layer over any surface you want.

Hope this helps!

Brian

Webkid16 — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 02:04:36 +0000

I tried that and it didn't work. I put the background color as white and chose the background color to be transparent in the selections> modify> transparent color and I made an image with a brown little guy and colored in some white and even left some of the grey/white square parts showing(the transparent part) and when I put it over a background it came out as a big white box with a brown guy in the middle.

fairhousing — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:18:27 +0000

when i had one of the older trial versions. when i was making a graphic there was an option for the background, transparent was one of them. maybe it's still that way with the newer versions.

good luck

Brian Farkas — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:15:51 +0000

I know in photoshop you have to export it as a gif and then use the eyedropper tool to make the background transparent, so I would assume you would have to do something similar. I'd recommend looking in the help files or on the PSP web site.