Is there a way to make an image (vector or png) background transparent from white while still keeping the white coloring in the image?

[shannonm33467233]

I have an image with a lot of white in it.. and white in some of the border part of the image. So I've tried some techniques but can't seem to get a good image with the white still in the image and make it transparent. I've tried a few ways but nothing is looking good (i.e, pen tool - left too much white and looked sloppy, trace image - never got an image at all).

Any ideas on how to make this successfully work? I also have access to photoshop and indesign if that works better.

Thanks.

[Monika Gause]

You might want to show something, because it's not at all clear what you want.

[shannonm33467233]

See how the image has lots of white throughout but I want to take the white around the image and make transparent. I need to make a clean transparent image while keeping the white inside.

[JonathanArias]

you can quickly remove all of the white on the image from photoshop in the blending options from the "fx" in the layers panel. look at my photo below.  you can than save it as a .png or place that photoshop file in illustrator and trace that...

is that what you want to do?

[shannonm33467233]

Nope. I want to keep the white in the image. And, make only the background around the image transparent.

[JETalmage]

What you are describing is alpha transparency (like a .PNG file) as opposed to indexed color transparency (like a .GIF file). PNG supports alpha transparency (inclusion of an entirely separate 8-bit channel used just to define transparency). GIF doesn't.

So yes, if you open the raster image in Photoshop, you can:

1. Select the entire image.
2. Copy.
3. Paste. The resulting pasted copy is a separate Layer.
4. Open the Layers panel and delete the Background Layer.
5. Use whatever means you prefer to select the unwanted white area.
6. Delete the selection. Those regions will now be transparent.
7. Save as PNG.

JET

[shannonm33467233]

I have a lot of problems getting the image to work because of the white regions also become transparent in photoshop.

I can use any version in illustrator vector or gif.... I just need someone to explain a simple way to get this image to become transparent while maintaining its while coloring inside the image.

[michelew83603738]

You can also Export as a png in Illustrator and Use Artboard setting to get a .png if the image is a vector shape. You don't need to worry about setting transparency in the file, just delete any whites you don't want and when you save as a .png, the artboard itself becomes transparent.

[shannonm33467233 · Accepted solution]

I went ahead and used the vector image and deleted the background then added white boxes back into the image and grouped it. Works now.

Thanks.

[Mario Arizmendi]

Many ways to do this, assuming the image you have is a picture, pixel-based I came up with this, see video

https://carvajal-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mario_arizmendi_carvajal_com/_layouts/15/guestaccess.asp...

If your image is a vector file the method need to be different....