Image trace: how to contain transparant background?

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August 12, 2019
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Someone please help.

I am tracing a png of a tree, in photoshop I made the background transparant.

The png looks like this:

When I trace it in Illustrator, the Image trace function makes white/greyish fills of some parts of the background, that in the original png are already transparant.

Deleting them manually or with Select > Same Fill Color is too time consuming. Other things like making the background red also don't work.

Someone has a solution?

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meganchi

Legend

In Photoshop you may want to defringe the image or try removing the white matte.

Select the foreground layer of the image, often labeled as "Layer 1." Click "Layers" at the top of the window, then click "Matting" and "Defringe" to open an option box. Enter a number of pixels to use for defringing.Photoshop uses the default value of one pixel for defringing.

OR

select the layer with the object of interest on it and then choose Layer >Matting > Remove Black Matte or Remove White Matte.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

FloorWP,

Are you sure that those troublesome bits are truly fully transparent? You need a high zoom level.

And which way was the transparency achieved in PS?

FloorWPAuthor

Participating Frequently

Jacob,

Yes, they are. The picture is a photograph (made with Iphone), where I manually deleted the surroundings (in Photoshop with magic wand and eraser). Maybe the quality is not high enough?