Thx for the fast reply. Its nice to see that it is possible in a relatively "fast" manner, once u have setup the smart object it is. But yes a simple menu option without this workaround would be a nice to have. As is rn i think even knowing that i could achieve it in PS i would still open krita very quick, and alpha out the white values and then going back to PS.  ... View more

Lets say you have an image like a Tattoo on a white background.    Now u want to remove the background and make it transparent. U can see in the image that it has a lot of spots where the colour fades out. If we would use this as a multiply layer ontop of something else, it would be fine, but if we want it to be transparent Photoshop doesnt have the option to calculate this. We can only select a colour range, but not "blend it on top of a transaprent background"  For clarification, i have highlighted the spots in question here.  So to turn this now into a Transparent image with all the values matching the correct alpha value we can use something called "Color to Alpha" on programs like Gimp or Krita. I will use Krita in this example.  Simply open the file in Krita, go to Filtter > Colours > Colour to Alpha. This will open a new window where we now can choose the Colour to convert to alpha and also the threshhold. For this example the default values of White and 100 is perfect for our needed result, assuming that the background is really White, to ensure this i would recommend to adjust the levels of the image first.  As you can see this will make our image Transparent. From my understanding it dynamicly looks at a colour value and figours out how much of our Selected colour is in their and copys this value over to teh alpha channel.  For a better understanding i will now use the Colour Range option in Photoshop to try to achive the same result. For this i will open the image in PS and go to Select > Colour Range  I put the Fuzziness to 200 (Personal Preference) and select the white background. I also make sure that Invert is selected as i dont want to select the white part, i wont to select everytihng that is NOT the white part.    After this i will cut and paste the selection as a new layer and delete the original.  Edit: In the process of doing this im noticing that in the actual preview of the image within PS, it seems to have actually set half transparent values. However as u will see just in a sec, it doesnt seem to transfer over to the exported png.  After this im going to File > Quick Export as png.  To better demonstrate this i will put both results infront of a lightgrey background, as it is ezier to see the difference their.  PS   Krita   Edit: After even more testing i noticed that indeed the PS version does have half transparent values. However, it doesnt seem to properly fillter out the white tone. As u can see in the results. The Krita version is cleaner and has more contrast, while the ps version still has a lot of white in it. I believe the only reason for the PS version even having half transparent values is because of the fuzzyness, wich is not the same. From my understanding the fuzzyness only blends the edges of the selection. A Fuzzyness of 0 will result in no half transparent values and only a flat selection.  As you can see in the result both methods calculate and work very different and also, imo, have totally different usecases. As someone that likes to keep as much of his pipeline in as few programs as possible, i would appreciate such a feature in PS. I will also append both images down here.    Thank you for reading and i wish you merry christmas.  ... View more

HI i know its 3 years later but im just wondering why photoshop doesnt have this feature and im also not understanding why so many people dont understand the propblem at hand.  Photoshops Seletc > Colour Range does not do the same thing as Gimps or Kritas Colour to Alpha  Kritas Colour to Alpha Filter basicly blends your selected colour with a transparent background wich is essential if you want to extract images with float tarnsparent values in some areas.  Photoshops Colour Range select just gives u a flat selection of an area.  This is not the same by far and im suprised why the quote on quote "Best Photoediting program" where u have to pay 25€ a month for doesnt have this.  If some dev or support is reading thsi and still doesnt know the difference pls go ahead.  Draw a simply point on a white background with a soft brush.  Now go into krita Filter > Colours > Colour to Alpha and save the image Now go into photohsop and do your Select > Colour Range and copy your selction ona transparent background, save the image  Spot the difference.  ... View more