help making an image transparent

[marc2003]

could somebody please make this image transparent by removing the white but keeping the dimensions intact. i know it would be a 2 second job for one of you guys.....

edit: image removed because it's been sorted.

thanks.

also if anybody wants to explain how i can do it myself (using free software ) then feel free.

 

[SimonCHere]

Download paint.net
open image in it.
select the white area using the magic wand tool.
use the eraser to remove all the white
save as format that supports transparency.

 

[Smoke-Alot]

hows this?

 

[marc2003]

^that's great. cheers.

i'll give paint.net a shot when i get home later. thanks to you both.

 

[Pho]

There's also Gimp.

Transparent tutorial:
http://www.fabiovisentin.com/tutorial/GIMP_transparent_image/gimp_how_to_make_transparent_image.asp

 

[_paul_]

if you are going to be doing a lot of editing i would recomend photoshop

 

[Ryan0r]

...but only if you have £800 knocking about

 

[_paul_]

yea there is that lol, sorry

 

[tsinc80697]

I doubt 3/4 of people on forums know what a legit adobe license looks like

 

[Ryan0r]

I've heard they exist...

 

[Smoke-Alot]

I doubt 3/4 of people on forums know what a legit adobe license looks like

i do, probably shouldnt of with how many users use a copyed version anyway,
but hay i use it all day every day so it was worth the investment for me, probably not for most tho lol

 

[Tripnologist]

Company paid for mine.

 

[Smoke-Alot]

^that's great. cheers.

i'll give paint.net a shot when i get home later. thanks to you both.

oh yea, No Problem


"Company paid for mine."
lucky you, saved you a pocket full lol

 

[Tripnologist]

Naaa, I wouldn't have paid for it for personal use.
However, as it's a large part of my job, I wouldn't settle for a non legit copy.

 

[Smoke-Alot]

same here,
i wouldnt use any non legit software when it comes to my work as its not worth the risk these days, to many ways they can catch you out

 

[marc2003]

well i tried the paint.net method last night and it gave me a slightly better image than the one Smoke-a lot posted above. the edges look smoother on a white background. i hope that wasn't photoshop you used.

 

[Tripnologist]

He probably did it quick.

tbh, when I help someone with an image on here, I don't spend as long on it as I would if I were doing it for myself.

 

[Smoke-Alot]

simple shake of my magic wand lol, probably should have defringed it a bit for you also but never mind,
glad you got it sorted,

 

[marc2003]

sounds like photoshop is far harder to use then - (stands to reason i guess. it's a professional tool costing zillions of $$$)

using the paint.net magic wand, all i had to do was click on any part of the white area once and it automatically selected all of it and then i deleted it. i didn't have to do anything else at all

 

[Smoke-Alot]

for an image like that it would be fine, not sure how well it would work if you was to cut a person out of background, (please feel free to test it out and let me kno0w lol, would be one for the records )
photoshop just offers all the little extras that make a huge differance, for the odd cutting out you should be fine with what you got