Does anyone know who to make imagines transparent in Photoshop?

Answer 1

You want to play with the alpha channel. I seem to remember that it's possible to make a "mask" which is used to control transparency, but it's been a while. Still, look for menu items regarding masks and perhaps alpha, and you'll figure it out.

Answer 2

Because I'm not sure what you mean, I will answer this question in 2 ways.

Do you want to make an entire image or layer partially transparent?

Make a File > New image, and make sure it's dimensions are atleast equal to what you want to work with.

Then simply copy-paste the image you want into it. If it's an image on a webpage, you can right click and select copy. If it's another image opened in photoshop: Goto Select > All and Ctrl C or Edit > Copy.

Once you have Edit > Paste the image into your new photoshop image, goto the Layers window (Window > Layers). Right clcik on "Layer 1", the one the image was pasted in as, and select Blending Options.

On the first Blending Options page, in the General Blending Border there is an Opacity bar. Set it at 50% or whatever you wish. (Change the Blend mode for interesting transparency effects.)

Now the image is partially transparent to whatever is behind it in the background.


OR, do you mean you want an image with a transparent background...an image that will blend with the background on a webpage better?

Open your image in Photoshop. The Eraser tool is used for most of the cropping.

First set the Erase to a larger brush, and do a basic outline. Erase all the excess space of th image, without getting too close to the main part of the image.

Then, set your brush to smaller and zoom in on the outline of your image. Gradually get closer to the image.

The more time you put into cropping, the cleaner the crop will be be.

Now, the saving format is key. PNG is a high quality image format, that supports an alpha value...but it will create too large an image for a website, which I assume you are working towards. Say you want to save it as a GIF.

Goto File > Save For Web...

Choose the Settings: for GIF 128 Dithered. Ofcourse, make sure Transparency is checked.

The Matte colour is an important setting, particularly if you did a very rough/fuzzy outline. GIF only supports 1 transparent colour, not shades of transparency. The Matte is the colour the background that partially transparent pixels fade to. Set this to the dominant colour of the background of your webpage. If you're not sure about this, a grey is the neutral way to go.


Hope one of these helps.

Answer 3

Copy the image, add it as a new layer (by pasting it) then in the layer toolbar, change it's transparency, very easy.

Answer 4

If you have windows XP you can use the windows movie maker and overlap pictures. There's a term that refers to this and it is often done to make paranormal hoaxes.