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make a picture transparant?

I would like to take a picture (its an icon not a real photograph) and make it transparent.

I am making a skin for my R4DS and I want the icons on the touch screen to be transparent so that the backround can be seen.

Is there a way to do this?

I have photoshop CS5 and paint.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yes, save your file as a .png file in Photoshop. That file will have a transparent background. If your icon is surrounded with a background that you don't want have to put your image on a layer by itself and then delete the background. Then save as a .png. The background will be transparent.

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