Does anybody know how to make a photo transparent by the outline? On Photoshop Elements 7 to be specific. I'm trying to make a .png transparent of this: Spoiler and this Spoiler I forgot how. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Wave your magic wand, say the spell, and wait. If nothing happens, congrats! You wasted 5 seconds of your life.
I've been told that using a path tool is the "right way" to do it, but I've always just used the eraser. The only real tripping point in GIMP at least is making sure the layer has an alpha channel. If you want to look up any tutorials what you're looking to do is called rendering.
If Im not wrong, elements should have the magic wand tool. Select white area-select inverse-clear. Thats pretty much it.
Might work well with the first pic but the second has a drop shadow. You could magic wand the shadow too but that's always led to issues with me.
If using GIMP: Alpha to Selection, choose perfect white as the colour to set to alpha. If you want to render the image, then you will have to do what the others said. Zoom in and edit it pixel by pixel after you get rid of the bigger areas.
That will delete the thing he wants to render. You need to not do the inverse thing. Though you could copy the selection with it inverse and then paste onto a new layer.
Not by itself but you should be able to hide the layer on your own. Just click the eye icon in the layer dialouge next to the original layer. Or you could copy it, select everything, delete, and then paste.
That would be completely pointless. My suggestion is to just use the wand tool, select the white areas and delete them. Then go in and erase stray pixels close to the render until it is just the pixels you want to show.
