PSP : MAKING IMAGES TRANSPARENT (TUT 3)

Paint Shop Pro Image Tutorials | Submited Mar 3, 2008

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Tut No. 3 - Removing Image from background

Sometimes an image simply has too much going on in it and too many colors, which makes it hard/impossible to choose a default color to make your transparency with (see tut 2).

When this happens, you are left with one option, and that it to completely remove (cut out) the image you want to make transparent from the background. If you do not know how to cut an image out, see these two tuts :-

http://www.skem9.com/tutorials/28/CuttingImagesFromBackgroundpart1.html
http://www.skem9.com/tutorials/29/CuttingImagesfromBackgroundpart2.html



1. Using the Freehand Selection tool on these settings draw around the image of the flowers in the vase. When you have finished you should have something that looks like this.



2. Now copy/paste as new image : using keyboard Crtrl-C > Ctrl-Shift-V or Edit > C and then Edit > Paste as New Image

3. You should now have an image on a transparent background.


Finally, to keep the clarity/quality of the image, save as a PNG.

4. File > Export > PNG Optimizer


5. A screen will open with the Colors tab showing. Make sure that 16.7 million colors is checked, if not do so now.


6. Now click on the Transparency tab and choose the settings as shown here and then click OK


You will then see a screen that looks like this


Choose where you want the image to be saved and give it a file name and make sure it is set on PNG for the file type and then hit save.

You now have a transparent image with no lowering with the image resolution.

Here is my final image.