PhotoShop Help

[wcavanagh]

Hi all,

Wonder if you can help. I have a jpg of a logo, it has a white background, I need to make this background transparent. How do I go about doing this?

I have CS5

Many Thanks
Will

 

[Chappers]

First duplicate the background layer. If you have the layer pallet open right click on the background and select Duplicate. Now turn off the background . Using whatever tools you like select the background area you want to turn transparent. Now go to Edit>Clear. This will now give you a clear background. . Now to be on the safe side I tend to the go to Select> Save Selection. Now you save the image I'd tend to use a PSD file as all the details are saved.

 

[redhed17]

Duplicate the layer.
Turn off the background layer.
On the duplicated layer make a selection of what you wish to clear (Magic Wand is normally pretty good), then Edit > Clear.
File > Save As... and choose PNG rather than PSD or Jpeg as the format, name it, and that should be it.

 

[wcavanagh]

Fantastic, worked a treat.

Many Thanks