I'm just wondering how to get rid of the white background of a picture when you turn it into a jpg in photoshop. You know what I mean? Like when a sketch is in a shape, it still wants to put a white square background around it. Sometimes the pic isn't even centered within that background. I'd like it if the backdrop would act invisible.
Hope I'm making myself clear here, abit difficult to convey. If you aren't catching my drift here, I'll post an example.
Thanks! Nettie
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Janette... I use a program called L-View. It will create transparent backgrounds on GIF's but I am not sure that it is possible to create transparent backgrounds on JPG's. Since JPG's are intended for photographic images which don't actually have a "background". Try saving your file as a GIF instead and then it can be done.
By the way, L-View is downloadable as shareware, and there is a website that explains how to do it, along with a link to download L-View at http://www.qualitty.com/trans.html
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I'm gonna be no help at all. I save it as a PHOTOSHOP file, then I import it into INSPIRE where one click will change the whit background into a transparent background. I then save it as a jpg or whatever!
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jpg doesnt support transparent backgrounds. transparent gif's can be made right from photoshop... convert it to indexed color and export it. but if you want it centered (I'm using ps5), link all the layers except the background (little box/chain next to the eyeball) merge them (ctrl+E) then select the background... link the picture layer and "align linked" (in the layers menu at top)
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Gday Nettie, You can put your artwork on different layers and then using the layers rollup you can turn the background layer off. Hope that makes sense. David Just re-read the post Nettie, I think I may have been off-tangent originally. If you want to nest your pic with a tranparent background, export it as a gif 89a (?) from the file menu in photoshop but you may need to experiment with the pallete options, it depends on the version and the default values. David ------------------ D.A. & P.M. Fisher Signwriting Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com
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Nettie, I don't think JPG images support transparency, but you can achieve this and save the result as a Photoshop (PSD)file. Here's how...
Open your jpg image. Select your image using the magic wand tool (or select the bgnd if it's easier to isolate). You can do this with the "Select/color range" command also. Once selected, cut your image to the clipboard. Then do a "ctrl-a" to select the entire canvas area. Delete this. Then go to "edit/paste into". This will create a new layer with your image. Now in your layer manager, click on the old bgnd layer and drag it to the trash. The background will disappear leaving a transparency. Hope this helps and I didn't just confuse you to death!
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Thanks for the input here! In the next couple days I'll do some playing around in Photoshop and see if I can figure it out.
I recieved a couple responses via email from Mike Jackson with regards to this question. Mike is very adept in Photoshop, so I thought I'd cut and paste his input here for others to benefit from it too.
Response #1:
Hi Nettie_ We did this a lot of our recent web pages.....
1: Open As> generic .AI.....at the prompt we select anit-aliased, picked a resolution and then the approx. desired size in witdth.....4" or 400 pixels depending on what we were doing. There is a check box for background either being the "background color, foreground color, or transparent". Sometimes, transparent isn't available and it comes in with a white background usually cropped to about the same size as the ornament.
2: If it is cropped too much, I use Canvas Size and add a little space all around with the white square in the center of the nine boxes.
3: In the layers box, drag the background layer down to the New Layer icon to make a copy of the current layer. The bottom one will now be your background layer.
4: make sure the background layer is highlighted and select at Control-A.
5: Make sure the background color is white or whatever color you want it in the two color boxes in the lower left corner of the toolbar. Then hit Control Delete (or fill with background color). In my case, I had tan and white as the two colors and did a linear blend holding down the shift key as I dragged the curser to set the blend.
6: Now highlight the top layer (in the layers box) with the image in it. Use the magic wand and select the background which is usually white. Hit delete. Depending on what else you want to make transparent, select one more area of white and it becomes selected. Under Select, pick "select similar" and it will go over the entire layer and select all remaining white parts. If some areas are selected that you really don't want to delete or turn clear, then hold down the ALT key and click on those areas with the Magic Wand. They will be subtracted from the current selections. Then hit delete.
7: That should do it. Now you can use the mover tool (the right one at the top of the left toobar) and move that layer around to center it over the background if necessary. Any time you want to select all the elements in that layer, just hold down the Control key as you click on that layer in the layers window. If for example, everything is black, you can select elements on that layer, pick maroon and hit Alt-Backspace and it will turn everything selected to maroon.
There are other similar tricks but you should get the idea.
Response #2:
Janette, If your question was directed towards a transparent Gif file for a web image, then the answer is different. I don't think there is such thing as a transparent backgroud Jpg file for the web.
To make a Transparent Gif:
1:Bring up your image in photoshop to the size you want it.
2: Whever is easier, select all the positive shapes using the magic wand or similar selector.....or select all the areas you want to be transparent, and do a reverse select under the Select menu.
3: Once all the positive shapes are selected, go to Select and down to the bottom of the screen and "Save Selection" (into an alpha channel). You can give it a name like "Mask".
4: Return to the screen and change mode to Indexed Color and pick the number of colors which holds the best color presentation.
5: Under File, there is a Gif "export" command. Hit that. It will bring up a dialog box. Under one of the pulldown menus, there is a "transparency from" box. Pull down and you will see your "Mask" there in the list. Click on that one and it will create the transparent background.
6: Click on the save box and in that section and give it a name. Done (if it is a fairly large Gif file, you might want to turn on "interlaced" as you save it)
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Hi Janette. From your past replies, I believe you also have Corel Draw. Here's a tutorial that I came across that's related to your question...also written by one of your fellow Statespersons. The tutorial is related to Corel Draw, but also has references to Photoshop. You may find this informative, or confusing, depending on how familiar you are with the program, and the terms used.http://www.cedesign.com/html/whitebg.html
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JPG doesnt support transparency. You can have it in the layers you are working on but when you flatten them and save it, its gone. You need GIF for transparency. There is a free photoshop filter called eliminate white that can easily turn white to transparent in a photoshop layer. If you want the jpg to show on a web page with a colored background and not show the square image you need to make the background in the jpg to exactly the same as the webpage so that it blends into the background color exactly.
is anyone using the png format? Have you read about the new svg vector format that is being developed?(for webpages) Corel has some filter for the format for coreldraw9 and the new adobe illustrator9 will also be able to save them. Sounds interesting
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wow.. so many of these responses made it sound SO COMPLICATED: 1. Create the graphic. 2. Make it the size you want 3. Go to Mode, check Indexed color 4. File, Export, use the eyedropper to click on the background color you want made transparent. 5. SAVE. wham, bam, thank ya ma'am LE
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That's why I suggested L-View Edna. Open the file, select the backgound color with the eyedropper, click on OK, and save. Pretty simple!
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