In our computer, photos, pictures, desktop backgrounds and other images always take a very large place. This is what can be found in any PC, regardless of who is its owner - a woman or a man, an adult or a child. Often there is a need to post an image on the Internet or just want to do something interesting with your photo. For example, replace the usual, real background with some colorful, more interesting and original one.
To do this, we need some kind of program for convenient image editing, in which it will be possible to perform several simple actions and replace the background image in the photo.
How to make a transparent background, we will tell you on the example of two programs.
The first is a simpler version of the image editing program - paint net. This program reminds us of the usual one for drawing, which is included in the standard Windows list. But it is a bit modernized and has more features and functions. The program is very convenient when you need to remove the background from the picture, and leave only some specific object, it is also possible to use various effects to change the image, you can apply text to photos and much more.
Make a transparent background here is not difficult. Using the paint net program, open the necessary photo or picture. When you click a line in the "open with" context menu, select our program in the list, after which the picture will open in the edit field.
On the toolbar located on the left of the screen, you see icons - buttons that we will have to use. Of all available, we need an “eraser” and a “magic wand”.
How to make a transparent background? We are learning. First, we enlarge the image so that we can more accurately and accurately erase the unnecessary parts of the image with the eraser and perform this task as close as possible to the object that you need to leave in a single visible instance. Then we take up the magic wand tool. With its help, you select unnecessary areas of the image and delete with the “Delete” button. I want to note that this tool selects all parts of the picture with the same color. Be careful, the unnecessary area may coincide in color with the desired part of the image, do not accidentally delete anything superfluous. Just in case, programmers come up with the function of undoing the last actions - this is a blue arrow located on the toolbar. And so with the help of the “eraser” and the “magic wand” we gradually remove all unnecessary from the image. Around the desired object there is only a background in a box. Here's how to make a transparent background for a picture in paint net. In order to save your image onto a computer with a transparent background, we press the line “save as” in the “file” menu and, choosing the save path and the required format - gif or png, save.
In such an important process of working with photography, we will be a good helper and photoshop. How to make a transparent background for the image in this more complex program?
Here you can use the same tools and the principle of work as in paint net, well, if you need good quality, very even and beautiful edges of the selected element that you want to leave on a transparent background, then you will have to work hard and use other buttons toolbars. It is necessary to use the Lasso tool - namely, the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool (if you do not have a Russian version of the program). With the help of this tool, we circle our object, outlining the fixation points, exactly repeating the shape of the object, and when you connect the line drawn by the “lasso” (close it), it will flash. This means that the selected object is ready for further changes. We click on the selected necessary fragment with the right mouse button and select the line “Layer via Copi” in the context menu - make a copy of the layer. After that, in the “layers” tab, select the source image, select it with the “Rectangular Marquee toll” tool (it is located on the control panel in the very upper left corner of the control panel). Press the "del" button on your keyboard. The background has become transparent. You can save the image in this form in the same way as in the above program.
How to make a transparent background for a photograph or picture in Photoshop, you now also know. Theoretical knowledge is not enough, so go ahead to the computer. The Photoshop and Paint.net programs are at your disposal.