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Ecoway
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July 18, 2013
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I can't make a transparent background...

  • July 18, 2013
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I have a text logo on a white background and need to make the background transparent.  However, the logo is movable on the white but is a part of the same layer.  When I try to add a layer that is transparent, it comes in white.  I don't know how to have the logo on a transparent background.  How do I get rid of the white?

thanks.

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    Correct answer Alec Molloy

    Okay, get rid of any extra layers (so you don't have a white layer beneath the logo layer). Then try selecting the white with the Magic Wand tool and hit delete. That SHOULD work but, going by your screenshot, the Magic Eraser should have worked too...

    --OB


    Hi Ecoway, any variety of the suggestions here would work to solve your problem. If you haven't already gotten this to work, I would suggest you close out of the image and open it up again, following these instructions from a short video I made:

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    OldBob1957
    OldBob1957
    Inspiring
    July 18, 2013

    Can you post a screen shot showing the logo and the Layers Pallette?

    --OB

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    EcowayAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 18, 2013

    The name is moveable on the white

    When I add a layer, this is what I get:

    It just comes in white, not with checkerboard that I"ve been seeing in a few tutorials I've watched to do what I need to do.  My understanding is that I need a transparent layer below the text layer so that when I erase, it goes to nothing.  (I didn't move the new layer down for the screen shot)

    However, I'm curious why the background is white and I can't change that yet I can move the text around.

    Thanks.

    OldBob1957
    OldBob1957
    Inspiring
    July 18, 2013

    Okay, get rid of any extra layers (so you don't have a white layer beneath the logo layer). Then try selecting the white with the Magic Wand tool and hit delete. That SHOULD work but, going by your screenshot, the Magic Eraser should have worked too...

    --OB

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    MADroomMAD
    Participant
    July 18, 2013

    Try the Smart Eraser tool.

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    EcowayAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 18, 2013

    I don't see that as a tool option. I have eraser, background eraser and magic eraser.  Is the one you suggest somewhere else?

    Thanks for responding.

    btw, the erase tools don't do anything.

    Alec Molloy
    Alec Molloy
    Inspiring
    July 23, 2013

    (I can't see how to quote people so I'm using blue for the quotes.) 

    “Open your brush panel and see if anything is enabled that shouldn't be for the eraser.”

    I looked but am not entirely sure what I’m looking for. 

    Find the magic wand in the left tool bar 4th one down.

    Click and hold until a popup shows and select the other tool called the quick selection tool.  With that tool enabled drag across the white (from 1 side of document to the other side) hit the delete key.  What happens?

    I had some success with this....in Photoshop it looks like I have a transparent background but when I insert the image in Word over a coloured background, the white is still there.  I’ll paste these below.  I cropped it a bit, too.  (hard to tell but it's the grid behind the word now not white.  I even remembered inside the 'o' for instance! :-)

    oh, and I saved it as a jpeg.  That should be fine, right?


    Ecoway, JPEG files do not support transparancy, so when you save to that format, the background is automatically made white.

    Save to a PNG (recommended) or GIF format.

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