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Changing background color to transparent in a BW image

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July 18, 2022
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Hello,

Is there an option to change the backgound color of a B\W image to transparent without burning it first in Photoshop?

Many years ago, I think it was in Freehand, you could import a grayscale tiff image and "delete" the backgroung by making it transparent. Is there a way to do it also in InDesign?

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Correct answer Tali25292135dswf

Hi, thanks 🙂

I found this sollution myself while playing and trying out stuff, thank you very much!

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Hi @Tali25292135dswf ,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to the suggestion shared above, I found this video tutorial that you can refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wDBCWdqR1s&t=1s

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards

Rishabh

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Tali25292135dswfAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Hi, thanks 🙂

I found this sollution myself while playing and trying out stuff, thank you very much!

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Glad to hear that! Please share the solution, I am sure it will help other community members.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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There are a number of shortcut tools, as already noted, but they tend to work only with a consistent, low-dynamic-range background, such as a dark backdrop or a white-surround object photo.

Using the magic wand for rough selection and then mask mode in Photoshop can be a fairly fast and efficient approach, and with better results on more complex backgrounds.

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Tali25292135dswfAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you 🙂

rob day

Community Expert

you could import a grayscale tiff image and "delete" the backgroung by making it transparent.

Hi @Tali25292135dswf , If you place a flattened grayscale image, you can select the image and assign any swatch color for the black/gray pixels and select the image’s container frame and assign a swatch for the background:

If the graphic is black and white, you can save the .PSD in Bitmap Mode (Black & White), the container frame can be set to [None]:

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Tali25292135dswfAuthor

Inspiring

Hi, thank you!

The second suggestion worked 🙂
The only problem is when I saved the image as Bitmap it became grainy..

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Bitmap (usually .BMP) images are indexed color, which typically has a much lower effective resolution than JPEG or PNG. It should be avoided for... pretty much everything except small web graphics, and even then.

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Aidan_C

Inspiring

Are you looking to have the person cutout?

You can draw around the person with a pen tool, then copy - right click - paste into. The pen outline will create a new frame for the image.

also you can right click image > clipping mask > change the type to "auto detect" and then mess around with the settings, and it kinda does it automatically for you (bit dependant on the image).

Not sure if this helps.