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how do i make a picture i have with white background into a transparent background?
i want my picture to have a transparent background so it wouldnt clash with my browser color. i even tried comparing my browser color to the picture bg but then i realise i cant set what others see on their browser.
i only have Paint program and nothing else. I've read about turning it into gif89a and transgif using programs. but i dont want to download anything.
the microsoft window help using free form mode to create a transparent background isn't helpful when i dont understand a singel s*** mentioned.
HELP PLEASE. I'VE SPENT HOURS ON THIS BUT I STILL DONT KNOW.
when i get to image attributes i dont see "use transparent bg". only colors or black & white.help
3 Answers
- Peter_AZLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
In MS Paint, with your picture open, you go to Image -> Attributes, click the "Use Transparent Background Color" box, click "Select Color", and click on the box containing your background color (solid white, RGB numbers 255-255-255).
Then click OK, OK, and "Save As" your picture as a GIF (Graphic Interchange Format). (Other formats don't allow transparency.)
Other graphics programs will do the same thing, the only thing they'll do better than Paint is optimize the color palette for GIF, so the picture itself will look better. (GIF only allows 256 colors, which means that it doesn't work so well with photos.) The best free program for that is Irfanview (www.irfanview.com).
- 5 years ago
You can use the background eraser tool, the magic eraser tool or even the Magic wand tool to remove that white background. Just be careful how you set up the tolerances of the Magic wand in particular (tolerance settings are at the top of your image window), if you have any white in the object itself, because you won't want to select and erase that.
