How to make transparent background without losing text/numbers?

[leighm90505746]

I've made backgrounds transparent before, but this particular image has small text and numbers with white space in the numbers (8/9/0) and letters etc. Every time I go to use the eraser tools/magic wand it deletes the letter/number from the image over all. How do I get the entire image to be transparent?

[Norman Sanders]

Eliminating the paper area can be done with precision by using the Layer Style's Blend If command.

1. Open the file and if the layer is locked, trash the lock.

2. Cmd+click on the New Layer symbol in the Layers panel to place a layer below the type

3. Return to the top layer and double click on it in the Layers panel to bring up Layer Style.

4. In the Blend If section at the bottom of Layer Style, move the right slider of the top grayscale to the left until the white area becomes transparent. It is a small move.

5. Layer > Merge Down and save the psd file.

[Norman Sanders]

One more possible solution (without seeing your file) might be to place the type layer over the image layer and change the type layer Blending Mode to Multiply. But, as Nancy wrote, it would help if we could see the work: the image and layers panel.

[Nancy OShea]

It might help if we could see what you're working with.  It sounds like a flattened image with everything on one layer.