Help removing white backgrounds

How do I get rid of the White background in my forum sig?

CJ from Tempe, AZ USA, using Photoshop 7 with Windows XP, writes in with:

[Quote:] well i was making a forum sig -- i saved it as a .jpg, but when i put it on the forum it was a white background still. i had a transparent background so i figure that only the sig will show, not a white background. how do i get rid of that white background so when i put it on the forum the sig stands on its own. thanks.

. . . Shaun replies:

Go back to your Photoshop psd file, select the white background layer, click anywhere in the background layer with the Magic Eraser Tool - this will take out all the colour and leave a transparency behind.

Now transfer the file to ImageReady and optimise it as a GIF. Should keep the background transparent.

Make sure to save it as a GIF file -- remember only GIF (or PNG) files can have transparency on the web!

Shaun Pearce
from LearnPhotoshopFast.com

Comments

[ryso]

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated.

[r.krishna]

Thank you very much for this tip. You can also do it by not going to image ready, click file - save for web devices in photoshop cs3 and click gif or png from drop down list. It is working and tested.

Thank you once again!

[dave d]

THANKS SO MUCH---Totally did the trick

[Tiffany]

Worked, thanks for the help.

[g]

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Svein W]

Corey -

If you make an alpha channel, you should check "Reverse Alpha" in the preferences for graphics import. Avid uses reverse colors for matte compared to Photoshop.

[corey]

I know this topic is old but, I'm a bit stuck. I want to get rid of the white background for use in a video using Avid. Every time I do the magic eraser and save as a .png, I get the reversed effect with the image shape being transparent and the white background showing.

[Tobi]

i have a image that i have cut all around in psd, and now i want to save the file as a jpg for a word application- however i do not want the imafamous white background- when i cut around it- i saved it in another file with the transparency background, thinkgint that would solve my problem- of course in illustrator it works perfectly, but my client wants to drop this graphic on top of a colored background in word-
is there a solution out there for me..
tia

[Tobi]

i have a image that i have cut all around in psd, and now i want to save the file as a jpg for a word application- however i do not want the imafamous white background- when i cut around it- i saved it in another file with the transparency background, thinkgint that would solve my problem- of course in illustrator it works perfectly, but my client wants to drop this graphic on top of a colored background in word-
is there a solution out there for me..
tia

[Nick]

Thank You so much, can i also save it as a .png

[noah kagan]

wow great advice. so freaking easy. glad i found this site. thanks!

[Sue]

What if you have a drop shadow on the graphic? how do you include that, but at a gradient, so it fades to show the background?

[Tim]

Another way to remove white or any colour for that matter from the background is to use Select>Colour Range. This gives you a more visual view of what is going to happen than the magic wand/magic eraser does and may work better for you.

[Sneha]

i want to know about how can u create a white background without looking jewellery(which is a clicked product)artifical.