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Post by richrdstone on Jul 26, 2021 21:52:17 GMT
You guys have been a lot of help in my other thread, but now I have another question.
In my project, I selected around the lady on the bike and did editor / delete and got transparency which I wanted.
I wanted to try the same thing with a different pic, but instead of transparency, I get a white background. what did I do different?
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 26, 2021 22:25:53 GMT
richrdstone, Try this . . . 1. Make your selection. 2. Place your selection on its own layer (Ctrl-J). 3. Turn off the visibility of the Background layer (or delete this layer). 4. Save your file as PSD, TIFF, or PNG to preserve background transparency. 
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 27, 2021 11:59:54 GMT
A few more ways to achieve transparency:
(Control + J) will create a new layer with the selected area intact and everything else transparent.
Pressing either Backspace or Delete will make the selected area disappear to transparency.
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Post by fotofrank on Jul 27, 2021 20:06:04 GMT
Pressing either Backspace or Delete will NOT make the selected area disappear to a transparency on the background layer. It will fill the selected area with the background color. The Background layer cannot have transparent pixels.
A simple test:
Create a new file with a transparent background - is it a Background layer or Layer?
Now flatten the layer - it is now a background layer that is filled with the background color.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 28, 2021 12:27:34 GMT
Pressing either Backspace or Delete will NOT make the selected area disappear to a transparency on the background layer. It will fill the selected area with the background color. The Background layer cannot have transparent pixels. A simple test: Create a new file with a transparent background - is it a Background layer or Layer? Now flatten the layer - it is now a background layer that is filled with the background color. I did not know that about the Background layer changing to background color; I always do such things on layers; I did know that one cannot make a jpeg Background transparent. I use PNG instead of jpeg when I want to preserve transparency in the finished product. |
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