Questions tagged [background-removal]
Questions about making the opaque backgrond of an image transparent.
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Making the background of an image transparent in Gimp
I have some jpg images and I need for each of them to have a transparent background.
I have GIMP as a graphic tool.
I need to put them in a web page and I need to see just the main element and have ...
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Replacing whiteness with transparency in Photoshop
I want to replace the whiteness in pixels with transparency in the same way as described in this question - i.e. for lighter pixels to be made proportionally as transparent. All solutions found via ...
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Add transparency to an existing PNG
I'd like to use this image on a web site.
What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background.
I used Gimp to ...
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How would I remove all the white from this image? I just want the image to be the red parts
The question pretty much stated it all, I want the red parts for transparency and all the white removed from this fingerprint image.
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How to remove a specific color in an image in Photoshop?
I am not an expert photoshop user but have been trying to use more of it in what I currently do.
I have a black and white image from
which I am trying to remove all the white.
I cannot use the ...
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Why does my transparent PNG not look good?
I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my ...
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How can I remove the unwanted background from a scanned handwritten signature?
I need to upload my signature in a PDF document, but I do not know how to edit the background of this image.
I wish to remove the bluish-tint background, and make it pure white.
Can anyone help me ...
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Techniques for cutting out hair accurately
I use the Pen Tool for 90% of the situations where I need to cut someone or something from a photo but sometimes it gets tricky, especially when it comes to hair.
Let's take the following image for ...
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How to turn the grey background white in a phone camera picture of a book?
Here is a picture (of many) that I took from a book with my phone camera.
The problem is that the background is too grey. I want it fully white. I have adobe Photoshop CS6. Does anyone know how I can ...
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Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent
I have an image of smoke over a black background. If I set the blending mode of this layer to screen, the image's background is perfectly edited out, however if there isn't another layer below this, ...
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How can I remove text from an image?
I have the following image with written text over it. The image is a flat .jpeg, so I don't have access to the layers:
Click image for full resolution
As you can see, the written text ("SPACE&...
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Making backgrounds of animated GIF files transparent
I have been creating animated GIF files using GIMP from several frames in PNG format that I created using Jmol and now I would like to know how to make the background of the resulting GIF files ...
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Why can't I use the Delete key to delete in Photoshop CS6?
The previous version of Photoshop I used was CS4 and whenever I selected a portion of an image with the magic wand and hit Delete, it simply deleted that portion of the image (rendering it transparent)...
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Replace black background with a transparent background
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders.
Could you ...
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How to remove background in sketch?
I've got an image I'm trying to remove the background from and I'm not really sure how that would be done with Sketch. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
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How to completely remove the background from an image?
I have an image (a logo) that was on a black background.
I have used Photoshop's (CS5) Background Eraser Tool to remove the background.
This is great except that there are black (well grey/black) ...
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How to remove a green/blue screen background using Photoshop CS5?
Using Photoshop CS5, i'm trying to fully remove background of a picture being shot behind a blue screen. To do this, i am using Color Range method (from Menu > Selection). It works ok for most ...
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How do I deal with color spill in chroma key using GIMP?
I'm experimenting with "green screen" techniques to remove the background around a test subject. The test shots were taken in front of a bright green background in moderate to bright lighting ...
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Is there a way to do a perfect background removal on hair?
Is there a way to do a perfect die cut on a person's hair or on dog's fur or others like difficult hair styles?
Similar to this:
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Using GIMP, can you “erase” a color?
I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is ...
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How to remove the background of an SVG with Adobe Illustrator?
I found a royalty free SVG image on the net. I'm experimenting with web design using SVG. The problem I'm having is that the SVG background is white.
How do I delete / remove the white background, ...
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Save a JPG without a background
I have created this image in Photoshop:
Layers:
I would like to save this arrow to a .jpg file without the white background rectangle. How can I achieve that? I was trying to hide the background ...
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How to remove background in a scan of an old drawing
I have the following image which I would like to clean using GIMP. Usually, with B&W images one of the following methods works, see here or here. However, I have 3 additional problems in this case ...
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How can I remove background from an image of a transparent object?
I am having hard time removing background from this image.
I tried using Magic Eraser and also Background eraser tool. Both of these do not work perfectly.
The reason could be the fact that lower ...
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Technical name for the removal of an image background
Can someone remind me what the technical name is for the removal of a background from a still image?
Our photographer told me years ago, but I've since forgotten and it gets embarrassing!
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How do I blend a black-background fire image in Photoshop?
This fire image:
As you can see, it has a black background, which I can't delete (because it would probably destroy the smooth-looking fire effect). I want to place some fire in a photo.
However, I ...
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How to remove gray background on gray picture?
I have a scan of an old anatomic atlas; it's grayscale and not really bright. I suppose it's a copy of an engraving. My question is: is it possible to remove this background relatively easy? Or magnet ...
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Gimp: removing background from product images
I often have the task of making the background of product images pure white.
While preserving the best possible image quality, what is the quickest way to adjust colors such that the background ...
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Highlight stray non-background pixels
I am editing an image in GIMP that has a few nearly-transparent (resp. very light) pixels scattered through an otherwise transparent (resp. pure white) background.
Is there a command that will ...
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How to remove neutral background in photoshop?
I have found that so many photographers use a grey backdrop or grey background for most of their portait photographs. I assume that it's because grey is easy to remove and replace with any desired ...
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How can I fix the edges of foreground objects pasted onto a new background?
How can I cut out a foreground object, e.g. a person, from one picture and superimpose it onto a new background without making the edges look bad?
The problem I've come across is that if I have for ...
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GIMP How to make existing gif background transparent
I have the following gif, how to make the grey background transparent if not white?
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GIMP: PDF export introduces artifacts on edges where there is no background
This is a followup question to gimp: Background removal gives gray fringe, when exported as pdf:
To reproduce the problem you have to follow these five steps:
In GIMP, create a New Fileo with ...
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Is it possible to have a page with a transparent background?
One of my pages has a single image taking up some space on the page. The rest of the space (the space not occupied by the image), should be transparent: that is, whenever I send it to the printing ...
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How to convert transparent layer to solid? (All variants)
I have a transparent layer, like this one (please notice transparency at the center of the image):
How would you fill the layer with a color like it was done here:
It is important to fill these ...
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Remove white part of every color to make lighter parts more transparent
My problem is so general, and there are version-dependent plug-ins for the problem not working with my version. I also found workarounds that are not the correct solutions.
I would to convert my ...
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Remove graph/grid background from a ECG-like readout in inkscape/ImageJ
I have this graph below, which shows a readout for an experiment on a graph background like this;
I would like to remove this graph background, leaving just the black line, so that it is formatted ...
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How to remove white background from multiple images?
So I received approximately 70 or so images from a customer and apparently they were all scanned. They are 4x6 prints but each one has a white background the size of a paper. How can I get rid of them ...
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How to remove backgrond using a photo with only the background? (GIMP/others)
I'm trying to remove the background from a photo with a subject, but I would prefer not need to use this kind of techniques to select the background. Some magic-fu would select the shape since it's ...
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Using GIMP to extract foreground objects using layers
I want to take some portrait shots and then replace the background. I don't have a green screen or anything I can use for chroma keying, so I had this idea that I could take a picture of a background, ...
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GIMP: Background removal gives gray fringe, when exported as PDF
I cut a region out of this Wikimedia Commons picture:
I simply used the free select tool to cut out the part (ctrl+x) and inserted it into another image without background.
However, when I export ...
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Removing background and cut out and sharpen handwritten text
I'm scanning some old text my grandma wrote in a book. I need to remove the background and just keep the handwriting on a white background. I've tried the Magic Wand, but that way a lot of spaces in ...
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Key out white of embedded image in Illustrator
I have an Illustrator document with a number of images embedded. The images are all illustrations on a white background. I need to remove the white so that the art behind shows through. I know there ...
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With Photoshop, how to batch replace white background with transparent in the image
I have got hundreds images of products with clear white backgrounds. I would like to change the white background color to become transparent.
Is there a means of batch processing this particular ...
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Extract similarities between bunch of image to remove stains on gimp or imagemagick
I didn't find clear answer on that:
I have some dots and stains on my lens. It's not so visible on some pictures but when I take shot at sky or something bright, the image is spoiled by stain and ...
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Change background color in Gimp
I am as newbie in Gimp as in graphic design. For my first learning task I tried to change background color as in tutorial, but I think, I took rather challenging picture to do that. The picture i took ...
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Separating a stock photograph from background
I purchased some stock images for a website I'm building (I'm a programmer, with relatively no design experience at all). The issue at hand is, like most stock images, the images I purchased are on ...
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Remove Background in Inkscape
I have two versions of a black and white image and would like to remove the background in both. I used Trace Bitmap in Inkscape with the settings below - the white background was no problem, but in ...
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What is the best way to remove the clouds from the background?
I'm trying to remove the clouds from the picture as cleanly as possible while keeping the wires still visible. What I'm aiming for is the structure with the sky cut out. I'd rather not make a path ...
