I can't make a transparent background...

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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:

OldBob1957

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

--OB

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EcowayAuthor

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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

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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