Bitmap question: Can I turn the white background transparent?

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Bernie
Sep 16, 2003
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I have a black and white bitmap. I’d like to have the white background become a transparent background. Is there a way to do this? I started out with a full color RGB file, turned it grayscale, and then changed the mode to a bitmap….but of course ended up with a solid white background around the black pixels.

So, I’d like to keep the black pixels and ditch the white background.

Thanks.

Tom
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John Mensinger
Sep 16, 2003
Bitmap mode won’t offer transparency. You’d have to convert back to grayscale to achieve that.
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Bernie
Sep 16, 2003
Funny thing….I placed the bitmap into Illustrator….which comes in with the "white" background totally transparent. I then selected the bitmap and gave it a "fill" color. Then I copied it and pasted it into Photoshop…and voila….no white background in photoshop anymore. (giving it a fill in AI had nothing to do with the transparency of course…just wanted to have the pixels a different color.)

I thought there might be a way to do this right in Photoshop…???

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