Hello Kostas, In Photoshop 6 there is a wizard on the help menu Help->Export Transparent Image... that does all the work for you. You just have to select the area to make transparent. It works marvelously, simply marvelously. Greg Fraser Master of Funk http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:ydavis@hkg.odn.ne.jp] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:37 AM > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: Re: how do i remove the white background in PS ? > > > kostas papakotas <kostaspapakotas@hotmail.com> wrote/replied to: > > >this is the cituation...i got to remove the white background > of a graph in > >gif format, keep the black lines and copy this onto another pics > >(all for the purposes of an article i am preparing) > > > >so i tried warking with layers and opacity to no avail.... > >any ideas, other than marking/deleting the background ? > > Use Select/Color Range, and select all the black lines, then copy it > to a new document with a transparent background, or directly onto your > other photo background. > > >
