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After removing the background of a given image, how do you get rid of the white box that encompasses the remaining image. When I copy and paste this remaining image to another layout, that infernal white box is always there.
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Hello Edwin, I might not be understanding correctly, but here is what I would try first.
The white would all have to be evenly colored for this to work.
Use the magic wand selection tool and select the offending white. Make sure that contiguous is selected - or that there is no white in the final image.
now shift-command-click on the mac or shift-ctrl-click with the PC (i think) to invert the selection. Copy to clip board and viola - all set.
You may need to add to the selection if the white isn't fully contiguous or you have cutouts in the image
Hope this helps
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After you paste the image into another picture, go to the eraser icon, there a three there. Select background eraser tool and click on the white background in the floating image.
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or if you are bringing the image into another program like illustrator, you can use a feature found in the photoshop Help menu called the "export transparent image wizard"
It is easiest if you first delete the white background, so in your layers, double click on the "background" layer & you will get a box prompting you to change its name to Layer 1, click yes & you will now be able to select the white background with the magic wand tool as noted in another post above. Once selected, hit delete & you will get the grey & white checkerboard indication transpanency. Now if you have other parts of the desired image on different layers, flatten them & go to help menu for the export transparent image wizard.
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Welcome! You haven't made it all that clear whether you're pasting into another PShop file, or into another program altogether.
If you're pasting into another (or a new) file in P'shop, then whatever you've selected will be pasted or copied in, white included, unless as mentioned above, you erase it to transparency, or make a precise selection of only the object you want. (That's where P'shp excels- millions of ways of achieving this selection, depending on expertise & difficulty!)
If you want to paste into ANOTHER program, you'll get the white, unless you export the file with transparency, found under the Help drop-down menu, from memory (Help>Export Transparent Image) and follow directions in the export wizard from there.
edit- whoops, I jumped in without fully reading Doug's post, which says what I've just said...
[ July 08, 2004, 06:21 AM: Message edited by: Ian Stewart-Koster ]
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If you are using the image in a program which doesn't support tranparent backgrounds (like GA), then you can create a black silhouette (bitmap) of the image - vectorize it - and combine it with an outer border.
Not a perfect solution, but it works.
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