Today's episode will tell you how to do transparent background in Photoshop.

Why do you need a transparent background at all?

It happens that one picture needs to be superimposed on another, but when the image is superimposed, a white background remains. See example below:

In this article we will look at three ways to get rid of this background. The result should be like this:

I hope everyone understands the point now. And we get down to business!

In the example below, we will insert a sun into a drawing of a clearing. Obviously, the current appearance of the image is not attractive. Therefore, we will try to correct this point. We don't remove the white background, we just make it invisible.

But first, of course, you should not insert a picture with a white background. Start with a drawing without the sun.

Three ways to remove background in Photoshop

1 way to make a transparent background:

That's it, the background has disappeared. I hope everything was clear.

2 way to make the background transparent:

Note! The two methods described above can be used if the background has the same color. In other cases, use the third method.

3 way to remove background in Photoshop

1. Remove the background in Photoshop using the quick mask tool. The mask is located at the bottom in the left vertical menu:

2. After clicking on the quick mask, select “Brush” and paint the object (not the background), the sun, in our case. Do not touch the background while doing this.

Use different brush sizes for shading. To do this, use the second horizontal menu. More details on the screenshot: 3. Once the sun is completely filled in, click on the quick mask again. Then the Delete button to delete everything around the object.

Everything was done quickly as an example, so the boundaries are not very accurate. However, if you try, everything will be great. The main thing is not to waste time and use brushes of all sizes wisely.

Now you know how to make a transparent background in Photoshop. Let's move on to solving another problem. Namely, to preserve a transparent background. Often, users successfully remove the background, but they fail to save the image in this form. Are you having the same problem? Then read on!

How to save an image with a transparent background

I’ll note right away important point. Maybe just these words will be enough to solve your problem. If you save the image in JEPG format, the transparent background disappears, leaving the same white color. Requires saving in PNG or GIF formats. Related articles:

Well, that's all. Now, if we insert the sun into the clearing, the picture will take on an attractive appearance:

Do you like to take photographs and make different collages from photographs and pictures? Or perhaps you want to make a header with several photos for your website or VKontakte group, but the problem is in the background, because it interferes with the overlay of pictures on top of each other.

In this article I will tell you two methods at once, how to use the Photoshop program to make a transparent background for a picture, to remove both the white background in pictures and photographs - this will be very easy and quick, and the general background, but here it will be a little more difficult.

As an example, I downloaded two pictures from the Internet with different backgrounds - a photo of a cheetah hunting and a snail. You can download them. Let's start with a picture with a white background - a snail.

Removing the background white background in the picture

I will say right away that this will happen very quickly and very easily. So, of course, everyone can handle this job. Well, friends, let's go.

1. Open Photoshop and upload an image with a white background into it.

2. Go to the “Selection” item, then to the “Color Range”.

3. Select “By samples”, click with the left mouse button on the white area of ​​the picture. Set the spread to 40 and click “OK”.

3. We now have the snail circled. But if you enlarge the picture and take a closer look, you will see that the white silhouettes in the snail are also outlined.

4. Go to the Quick Selection tool. By pressing the ALT button, use the left mouse button to remove unnecessary selection.

5. Before deleting the background, you need to unlock the layer. Unlock it by double-clicking with the left mouse button. If this window is not there, go to the “Window” menu item and check the “layers” checkbox.

6. Delete the background by pressing the “Delete” button. After right-clicking on the picture and selecting “Deselect”, if that doesn’t work, press Ctrl + D, the selection will be removed.

7. At this stage we have finished removing the white background in the snail.

Be sure to select the file type “.PNG”, otherwise the background will be white, not transparent. Save.

Open it and admire the picture without a white background.

Removing a complex background in a picture

Let's throw our cheetah into Photoshop. Now let's try to cut out the cheetah and its prey from the background in the picture, in other words, remove the background.

1. Go to the “Quick Selection” item and select the brush parameters you need for this tool. One of the main parameters is the size of the brush. Choose the appropriate size to make it easier to highlight the background. In this case, the rest can be left as default.

2. Now, with the left mouse button, select the background that we want to delete. If the selection doesn’t go where we want it, in our case on the cheetah and its prey, then hold down the “ALT” key and left-click to remove the selection that has gone in. To zoom in and out, hold down the Shift+Alt keys and roll the wheel on your mouse. To “walk” through the image while selecting, hold down the spacebar.

Once selected, right-click without leaving the “Quick Selection” tool and go to the “Refine Edge” item and in the edge settings, in the Smooth item, in our case we indicate somewhere around 10 and click “OK”. After that, unlock the layer and press “Delete” to delete the background.

The “Smooth” function is needed to ensure that the edges are smooth when deleting.

If you need to erase a little, use the Eraser

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Very often when creating greeting cards or video I came across the question: How can this be done without knowledge photoshop?

Anyone who is familiar with Photoshop will do this without difficulty. But not everyone has studied this yet smart program. How can they be? Is there really no way out?

After all, there is always a desire to make our presentations, congratulations, and pages the most attractive and professional. I have already told you how to use the program for these purposes. It will help you make your pictures and you can even use it to make your first one.

And now I’ll tell you another secret: today you will learn how to make the background of a picture transparent. Moreover, you will do it absolutely free and spend only 2 minutes of your time.

Let's get down to business.

Find the picture you like. To begin with, it should be an image on a non-multilayered background - for example, on a white one. Go to the service page. You don't need to go through a tedious registration procedure. Just click on the online service link.

The following window will open in front of you:

Click on " Upload an image from your computer". Select the picture you have prepared. You can place it in a separate folder in images. Or on the desktop, so as not to have to search for a long time. Click once on this picture and press " open".

The picture appears on the server page:

There are 3 windows coming out on the right and in the middle of them there is a padlock. Click on it 2 times with the left mouse. This will open the door to magic.

On the left side you see the panel " Tools", one of which is that " wand", which we will now use. Click on it once, and then click on any empty space in the background of the picture you selected. A dotted line will appear around the image.

The final step towards transformation: press the " Del" (delete) on your computer. The background becomes a checkered area. If not all the space around is covered by the checkered area, touch this place again with the magic wand and press the "Del" button

A window appears asking you: “Save the image before closing?” Click " Yes".

Good day to everyone, my dear friends and readers. Every day I write articles on my blog, and accordingly, each of them needs some kind of introductory picture. To do this you have to look for special images on the Internet. Ideally, there are images with a transparent background. This makes the work much easier, since they fit perfectly into the picture without unnecessary objects.

But it happens that I found some awesome image that would fit the general theme, but she, such a dog, is with unnecessary objects and background. So what then? Forget about good graphics? No way. and just today I will be happy to show you how to make a transparent background of a picture in Photoshop with several pretty in simple ways.

You can see my article where I wrote about. This method suits our purpose (you also select the object and drag it to new document on a transparent background), but I would advise using it specifically for such complex selections. For the usual removal of unnecessary background (that is, creating a transparent one), we will use simpler methods.

Before you start the main work, open the image and try to crop it until the element fits into it. It will be easier, believe me. Moreover, it is easy to do. Just take it and reduce the boundaries.

Creating a new document

If you expect to do something from scratch, then initially make sure that when creating a new document you have a transparent background. To do this, create a new document and after setting all the parameters, be sure to set "Transparent background". And then we work as usual

Wand

This tool is best used to remove the background when it is homogeneous or has a similar structure. For example, I took a photo of a monkey on a rope. As you can see, it is on a white background, but we need a transparent one. Then we crack our fingers and start doing everything step by step.

If you see that the background stands out either too little or too much, then play with the tolerance. The larger it is, the more similar pixels it will capture, i.e. more, if the tolerance is minimal, then it will highlight strictly one color, and if it is increased, then the range will also include shades that are close to this color.

Just don’t forget that such images must be saved in the format PNG, otherwise the transparency will be lost and you will have a white background again.

If the background is very heterogeneous and it is clearly visible that even a tolerance will not help, then use others, for example, or even a lasso. By the way, I already showed this on.

Eraser

You can also erase the background with a regular one. Yes, yes, exactly them. Just don’t forget to remove the lock from the layer, otherwise everything will be painted white instead of transparency.

The process is of course quite tedious. After all, you need to select the normal hardness and wash it calmly without touching the element itself, in this case the leopard. In any case, it cannot be ruled out as an option. Do you agree?

Of course, there is a simpler way, namely a tool "Background Eraser". The only thing is that it is better that the background and the element are sufficiently different from each other in color and saturation. So I took a photo of a tiger jumping against the sky. Great option.

Well, at the same time, I won’t forget about one more eraser. In the same group of tools, select "Magic Eraser". Again, we look at the clearance. With such a composition, a high level of tolerance can be set, even 80-90 .

Now we just need to click on the sky once. Do you see what happened? We no longer need to wash anything. Most of the palate was shaved with one press.

Click on the remains of the sky to completely remove it. The tiger should only be on a transparent background. Well, then everything goes according to plan. Clear everything to transparency and save the image in the format PNG.

Well? Isn't it beauty? All. Now it can be used for any collages or other types of images. You can even make it look like he is trying to attack you))). Well, that’s as your imagination tells you.

Well, if you seriously want to learn how to make beautiful, interesting and professional collages, then be sure to watch course from Elena Vinogradova, a professional in creating collages on this topic. The course is really excellent and looks like a breeze.

Well, with this I say goodbye to you. I hope that you liked my lesson today and that it was useful to you. Don't forget to subscribe to blog updates and share with your friends on social networks. And I'm waiting for you in my other articles. By the way, have you forgotten about the competition? I'll announce the results in a week. So let's hurry! Well, I wish you success. Bye bye!

Best regards, Dmitry Kostin.

Hello dear visitors. In this lesson I will show how using Photoshop you can remove background and make the photo transparent. You don’t need any special knowledge of this Photo Monster, since everything here is very simple. The main thing is that you have Photoshop installed and you repeat all the steps after me.

So, how to make a transparent background in Photoshop?

Launch Photoshop and open the experimental photo. Click the File – Open menu and specify the location of the image.

Great, 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 small padlock.

This lock needs to disappear, that is, the layer is unlocked. To do this, straight to the lock make one click with the left mouse button. And the lock is gone!

Now we need to remove the background. To do this, take some kind of selection tool, for example, Wand.

Click the tool on the background of the photo, thus selecting the object we do not need.

A dotted line appeared (running ants). All you have to do is press the keyboard DELETE key and the background will be removed. See how it turned out:

Super! Now deselect it by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTR+D.

Well, in general, how make a transparent background in Photoshop We figured it out and now all that remains is to save this photo correctly.

To do this, click the menu File – Save for Web. Or just use ALT+SHIFT+CTR+S.

You will see a window in which we must select the PNG-24 format and only then click the Save button.

Now look what happened and what has become:

Finally, it’s worth saying 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 Wand, since in my photograph the person was easy to separate from the background. If you remove the background from complex images, you will have to work a little harder.

That's all for today, good luck!

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