More often transparent background required to superimpose one part of an image over another or over the illustration itself. A colorless background is actively used in the design of websites. Many photos in online stores also require a white color behind the main image, which can only be obtained with a transparent one, since the camera is not able to create a clean White background colors 255 255 255 by RGB.
Using the Magic Wand
The easiest way to make a transparent background in Photoshop CS6 and newer versions is to use the " Magic wand" or " magic wand". Further given step-by-step instruction:
Eraser
Tool " magic eraser» removes close colors, moreover, it automatically converts the background layer into a normal one. The following is a step-by-step instruction for creating a transparent background for an image:
- Then you can use an ordinary eraser clean up leftovers background and finish editing, which will allow you to make the picture on a transparent background.
Background replacement
This function allows you to replace the background or even make it transparent. detailed instructions on its use:
How to Save an Image Without a Background in Photoshop
Saving an image without a background will not work in the usual JPEG format, after saving the illustration, the background will be created automatically. To save the desired illustration with a transparent background, you need to use formatPNG. To use it, you need to follow the path: file — save as- type when saving, specify PNG. 
Translucent pictures are used on websites as backgrounds or thumbnails for posts, collages and other works.
This tutorial is about how to make an image translucent in Photoshop.
To work, we need some kind of image. I took this picture with the car:
Looking in the layers palette, we will see that the layer with the name "Background" locked (lock icon on the layer). This means that we will not be able to edit it.
To unlock the layer, double-click on it and in the dialog box that opens, click OK.
Now everything is ready to go.
Transparency (in Photoshop it's called "Opacity") is very easy to change. To do this, look in the layers palette for a field with the appropriate name.
When you click on the triangle, a slider appears with which you can adjust the opacity value. You can also enter an exact number in this field.
In general, this is all you need to know about the transparency of images.
Let's set the value to 70% .
As you can see, the car became translucent, and the background in the form of squares appeared through it.
Pressing a keyboard shortcut CTRL+S and in the window that opens, select the desired format:
After you have chosen a save location and given a name to the file, press "Save". The resulting image is in the format PNG as follows:
If the background of the site has any drawing, then it (the drawing) will shine through our car.
Like this simplest way creating translucent images in Photoshop.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to cut out an object from one photo to another or make a transparent background. To do this, you first need to cut out the object from the photo. What are we going to do now. If you have not yet taken the object you need, then it is better to try to find a uniform, contrasting background, but if you already have photographs and others cannot be done, then you will have to act as it is, but it will be more difficult to work with such a photo.
I will be using this lid.
How to cut an object in Photoshop
- Click on the lock on a single layer in order to be able to remove it "through and through", making "holes" in the photo.
2. Now, you need to select the "magic wand" tool. It highlights objects along the contours and helps to fulfill our mission)
I was a little unlucky and my subject did not stand out completely. To fix this, we hold down "ALT" and draw over the area that was highlighted as superfluous, thereby showing the program that it made the selection incorrectly. Photoshop uses neural networks for such operations, therefore, with each refinement of the contour, the selection will be more accurate.
5. Well, it's much better this way. Now press the Delete button on the keyboard and the background is removed.
Well, we made the background transparent, you can crop the photo to make it more convenient to work and save it in png format.
Crop image for convenience
- Select the cropping tool and select the desired area on the image.
Saving a photo to png
- Open the "file" menu and look for "Export as" there.
2. Select "format", "png" in the field. Make sure the "Transparency" checkbox is checked and click "Export All". Save the file and ruduemsya)
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This is how you can make the background transparent. Everything is done quite simply, but sometimes it is difficult to select an object and you have to tinker. The resulting image can be superimposed on photographs. You will definitely succeed, the main thing is to want!
4.86 /5 (7 )Hello dear visitors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use Photoshop to remove background and make the photo transparent. You won't need any special knowledge of this Photo-Monster, because everything is very simple here. The main thing is that you have Photoshop installed, and you repeat all the steps after me.
So how do you make a transparent background in Photoshop?
We launch Photoshop and open the experimental photo. Click the menu File - Open and specify the location of the image.
Ok, the photo is open and let's start cropping the background. First of all, we need to unlock the layer. Pay attention to the lower right corner of the program. There you will see the main layer of our photo and little padlock.
It is necessary that this lock disappear, that is, the layer is unlocked. For this, right on the castle one click with the left mouse button. And the castle is no more!
Now we need to remove the background. To do this, we take some kind of selection tool, for example, Magic wand .
We press the tool on the background in the photo, thus highlighting the object we do not need.
A dotted line appeared (running ants). It remains to press the DELETE key on the keyboard and the background will be deleted. See how it turned out:
Super! Now deselect by pressing CTR+D on your keyboard.
Well, in general, how make a transparent background in photoshop we figured it out and now it remains to save this photo correctly.
To do this, click the menu File - Save for Web. Or just use ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+S.
You will see a window in which we definitely need to select the PNG-24 format and only after that click the Save button.
And now look what was and what has become:
Finally, it should be said that in some cases when you decide to make a transparent background in Photoshop on some picture, you may have to use other selection tools, for example, Pen or Magnetic Lasso. I used the tool Magic wand, since it was easy to separate a person from the background in my photo. If you remove the background from complex images, you will have to sweat a little.
That's all for today, good luck!
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