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bob smith
Mar 19, 2013
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If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?

Thanks.

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Craig Schiller
Mar 20, 2013
Use the magic wand tool to select the white area. Delete it. Re-save as PNG.

Craig

On 3/19/13 4:17 PM, bob smith wrote:
If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?

Thanks.
BS
bob smith
Mar 20, 2013
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:30:20 AM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:
Use the magic wand tool to select the white area. Delete it. Re-save as PNG.

Craig

On 3/19/13 4:17 PM, bob smith wrote:

If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?


Thanks.


For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?

I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.

Thanks.
CS
Craig Schiller
Mar 20, 2013
Sorry – I should have said to unlock the background layer first.

Or you can try this:
Use the quick selection tool to select what you want to preserve on the transparent background. Hit control or command-J to put that selection on a new transparent layer. Unlock and delete the background layer. Save as PNG.

Does that work for you?

On 3/20/13 3:12 PM, bob smith wrote:
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:30:20 AM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:
Use the magic wand tool to select the white area. Delete it. Re-save as PNG.

Craig

On 3/19/13 4:17 PM, bob smith wrote:

If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?


Thanks.


For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?
I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.

Thanks.
BS
bob smith
Mar 21, 2013
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:19:26 PM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:
Sorry – I should have said to unlock the background layer first.

Or you can try this:

Use the quick selection tool to select what you want to preserve on the
transparent background. Hit control or command-J to put that selection
on a new transparent layer. Unlock and delete the background layer. Save
as PNG.

Does that work for you?

On 3/20/13 3:12 PM, bob smith wrote:

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:30:20 AM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:

Use the magic wand tool to select the white area. Delete it. Re-save as PNG.




Craig






On 3/19/13 4:17 PM, bob smith wrote:


If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?




Thanks.




For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?


I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.


Thanks.


Ok. I unlocked the background.

I went to
Layer -> New -> Background from Layer

It works now.

Thanks.
BS
bob smith
Mar 22, 2013
On Thursday, March 21, 2013 3:24:10 PM UTC-5, bob smith wrote:
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:19:26 PM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:
Sorry – I should have said to unlock the background layer first.




Or you can try this:


Use the quick selection tool to select what you want to preserve on the


transparent background. Hit control or command-J to put that selection


on a new transparent layer. Unlock and delete the background layer. Save


as PNG.




Does that work for you?








On 3/20/13 3:12 PM, bob smith wrote:


On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:30:20 AM UTC-5, Craig Schiller wrote:


Use the magic wand tool to select the white area. Delete it. Re-save as PNG.








Craig












On 3/19/13 4:17 PM, bob smith wrote:




If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?








Thanks.








For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?




I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.




Thanks.



Ok. I unlocked the background.

I went to

Layer -> New -> Background from Layer

It works now.

Thanks.

Ooops… Actually, it was called Layer from Background… Makes more sense that way.
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Joel
Apr 7, 2013
bob smith wrote:

If you have some anti-aliased text on a white background all in a PNG image, what is the easiest way to make the background transparent?

Thanks.

Well, the easiest way is to select the are you want then DEL and SAVE to PNG and you have it. There are 1001 different ways for selecting, and how clean will be depending on how clean the image is, here is few

1. Using Magic Wand

2. Magnetic

3. Color Range to select the color you want to pick (+ option for more). Then use Laso to select the area you don’t want to remove it from the selection

But TEXT, you may want to replace it with better text than messing around with it as it may not worth the trouble. And sometime it’s easier to SELECT the text (assuming it’s a large one) than removing the background around it.

1. Select the TEXT using tool similar to selecting background

2. Using other tool(s) to enhence the text then paste back to replace the original.. or whatever you want to do in the first place.

BTW, I am horrible with text, but did try to deal with the original text few times
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Joel
Apr 7, 2013
bob smith wrote:

For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?
I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.

Thanks.

When you have the image opened with Transparent canvas, then deleting area will be transparent
BS
bob smith
Apr 11, 2013
On Saturday, April 6, 2013 7:25:01 PM UTC-5, Joel wrote:
bob smith wrote:

For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?


I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.


Thanks.

When you have the image opened with Transparent canvas, then deleting area
will be transparent

Can you be more specific about how you open with a transparent canvas?

Thanks.
J
Joel
Apr 14, 2013
bob smith wrote:

On Saturday, April 6, 2013 7:25:01 PM UTC-5, Joel wrote:
bob smith wrote:

For some reason, it just fills it with the background color when I hit Delete?


I’m using Photoshop Elements 10.


Thanks.

When you have the image opened with Transparent canvas, then deleting area
will be transparent

Can you be more specific about how you open with a transparent canvas?
Thanks.

Photoshop has option to set the background as ANY COLOR or Transparent, all you need to is is setting Photoshop to create new canvas with Transparent background.

You can change to new canvas to transparent background by double-click on it to option a window, and you can change it. I don’t know, may be it depends on the setting on some version I just double-click on it and it change to transparent background, some version I just Ctrl-A then Del whatever current background and have the transparent background

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