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  • Photoshop and erasing 'backgrounds'
  • gozarch
    Free Member

    Having a nightmare with Photoshop. I’ve got a jpeg of a logo, which is a white background with a red and black design. I need to get rid of the white background so I can use the logo on a different colour background without having a big white square. I’ve done this sort of thing before with background eraser, but when I try it on this image it’s not showing the checkerboard for the pixels I’ve erased.

    Seemingly, it is working, because if I then paste it onto a black background, I can see big, black brushstrokes, but I can’t see it when I’m actually doing the erasing.

    Is there something really obvious I’m missing?

    zinaru
    Free Member

    is the logo on a layer rather than the background?

    gozarch
    Free Member

    Nope it’s only showing the background, no other layers

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    zinaru
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    duplicate the background layer and edit what you want to remove in this new layer. you can then add this layer over any other colour/image you want to place behid it.

    palmer77
    Free Member

    Have you tried using the magic wand tool to select the background colour?

    jimjam
    Free Member

    gozarch

    Is there something really obvious I’m missing?

    The ability to use photoshop 😆

    (sorry)

    ampthill
    Full Member

    Create a new layer below the one you are working on. Fill that with a colour (lime green). Rub out the top layer until you can see the lime green every where you want transparency

    You can always delete the layer below later

    The final image will need to be saved in a way that support transparency. No idea how you do that

    gozarch
    Free Member

    Yeah, thanks jimjam 😉

    I wouldn’t mind if I hadn’t done the same thing successfully before!

    Duplicating the background doesn’t seem to work. I still can’t see the areas I’ve erased – everything is still just white. ampthill, I’ve already tried that, too.

    It’s this image (can’t link properly due to out-of-date browser!) In the library, it looks as though it has a black (or no) background, but that’s not the case when I paste it somewhere.

    http://s852.photobucket.com/user/gozarch/media/Bikebits/Artwork.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

    It’s doing my head in.

    gozarch
    Free Member

    Hmm, using magic eraser on the iMac (and version of Photoshop that wasn’t invited when Noah were a lad) worked first time. All very strange. Thanks for the input, though.

    seosamh77
    Free Member

    double click the layer to active it, so it turns from background to layer 1.

    select > color range > dropper the white background > shift fuzziness slider to 200 > ok > this has highlighted all your white > delete.

    Save as pdf, psd, tiff, png, gif. depending on the usage if you want to keep the transparency outside of photoshop.

    Your image is also in CMYK, so you’ll want to change to RGB if you want to use it for the web (png/gif.) image > mode > RGB.

    zinaru
    Free Member

    gozarch – just did it in 1/2 a second – email me!

    jimjam
    Free Member

    You mean like this?

    jimjam
    Free Member

    Or like this?

    jimjam
    Free Member

    Or perhaps, you mean like this?

    jimjam
    Free Member

    Any better? come on back to me here. Let me know.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Surely like this?

    lerk
    Free Member

    Ah good, a photoshop thread!

    Klunk
    Free Member

    tell him for god sake! though you should add a mask to the flag on the multiply layers assuming the logo on the flag should be white.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Photoshop thread is golden!

    palmer77
    Free Member

    [/url]C&CC by bushmills77, on Flickr[/img]

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Drac
    Full Member

    /sits down with tea and biscuits.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Chocolate finger Drac?

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Gah! My new PC doesn’t have photoshop on it!

    jimjam
    Free Member

    That’s why you should have bought a Mac. Macs are best for photoshop.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Gah! My new PC doesn’t have photoshop on it!

    I did my version in paint.net – which is free.

    samunkim
    Free Member

    For any non-photoshop folks

    http://www.zamzar.com

    will tranform most to graphic file into PNG and allow colour to be edited to transparent

    user-removed
    Free Member

    Haven’t got time to read the whole thread (I usually do, honest) but save it as a gif and your problem is solved. Apologies if this has already been recommended.

    Edit- sorry png not gif.

    binners
    Full Member

    binners
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    Cougar
    Full Member

    Dunno much about Photoshop, but that logo is a crime against fonts.

    binners
    Full Member

    There are all manner of crimes being committed with that logo. Not least the third reich colour scheme, complete with swastika-esque standard/flag 🙂

    palmer77
    Free Member

    [/url]CCC by bushmills77, on Flickr[/img]

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