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Quick Question for PhotoShop CS3 Experts...

by Mike Adams
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I have done this before with no problem but just now I tried to make a white background transparent. I simply used the magic wand selected the white areas and clicked "delete" but instead of it turning into the checkered board pattern it turns black. Can someone explain why this is happening?

My steps:
1. Drag my .JPEG from desktop to PhotoShop
2. The image is framed with the gray background, not transparent background.
3. Magic wand to select area
4. "Delete button"
5. Selected background turns black.

Like I said I have doesn't this before and it turns to the transparent gray/ white checkered board background, so maybe its a settings issue.

Please keep in mind that I'm new to PhotoShop and only use it for simple changes like this.

Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author imageworx
    you need to get your background layer to be transparent...

    try this:
    create a new document that is the same size and dpi as your jpeg doc but make sure the background is transparent.
    keeping this document open select the old document
    select all
    on your keyboard select control and J, that should make a new layer
    drag the new layer to the document that has the transparent backgound you just created
    then selectwith the magic wand and delete the backround
    that should work
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Whyte
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    Sounds like to me that you are working with an Image that is an "Indexed Color" image. With the image in Photoshop, look at the menus at the top of the screen and select IMAGE, then from the drop down menu select MODE. If you have a Check next to "Indexed Color", this is your problem. Make sure you have a check next to "RGB Color". You can do that by selecting it.

    Now that you are in RGB Color mode, you should be able to select the parts of the image you want to delete and then save the file out again with transparent parts.

    To do that, it will need to be saved as either a GIF or a PNG format. JPG files do not support transparent images.

    Hope that helps you out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    I checked that and it was under the RGB Color. What I did try that works is to select the are with the selector tool "magic wand" but then select the eraser tool and click in that area with the eraser. That turned the selected area transparent. I guess thees more than one way to do it but it still doesn't make sense that if I click delete it turns it black but if I use the eraser it makes it transparent.
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