How to make a transparent background for an image?

In our computer always a very large place is occupied by photos, pictures, backgrounds for the desktop and other images. This is something that 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 place 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.

To do this, we need some program for easy image editing, in which you can perform several simple actions and replace the background image in the photo.

How to make a transparent background, we will tell you by 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, for drawing, which is included in the standard Windows list. But it is slightly upgraded and has more features and functions. The program is very convenient when you need to remove the background from the image, and leave only a specific object, you can also use various effects to change the image, you can apply text to photos and much more.

It is not difficult to make a transparent background here. Open with the help of the paint net program the required photo or picture. When you click on the line in the context menu "open with", select our program in the list, then the picture opens in the edit field.

On the toolbar, located on the left of the screen, you see icons - buttons, which we will have to use. Of all the available, we will need an "eraser" and a "magic wand".

How to make a transparent background? Learning. First, enlarge the image so that you can erase the unwanted parts of the image more accurately and accurately and perform this task as close to the object as you need to leave in a single visible copy. Then we take up the magic wand tool. With its help you select unnecessary areas of the image and delete it with the "Delete" button. I want to note that this tool identifies all parts of the drawing in the same color. Be careful, the unnecessary area can match the color scheme with the desired part of the image, do not accidentally delete something superfluous. Just in case, programmers invented the function to undo the last actions - it's a blue arrow located on the toolbar. And so with the help of "eraser" and "magic wand" we gradually remove from the image all that is superfluous. Around the desired object there is only a background in the cell. Here's how to make a transparent background for the picture in the paint net program. To save your image on a computer with a transparent background, click on the "file" menu line - "save as" and, by selecting the save path and the required format - gif or png, we save.

In such an important process of working with photography, we will be a good assistant and photoshop. How to make a transparent background for an image in this more complex program?

Here you can use the same tools and working principle as in paint net, well, and if you need good quality, very smooth and beautiful edges of the selected element that you want to leave on a transparent background, then you have to work a little and use other buttons Toolbars. Use the Lasso tool - namely the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool (if you do not have a Russified version of the program). With the help of this tool, we circle our object, by stitching 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 required fragment with the right mouse button and in the context menu select the line "Layer via Copi" - make a copy of the layer. After that, in the "layers" tab, select the original image, select it with the "Rectangular Marquee toll" tool (it is located on the control panel in the upper-left corner of the control panel). Press the "del" button on your keyboard. The background became transparent. Save the image in this form is the same as in the above program.

How to make a transparent background for a photo or a picture in "Photoshop", you now also know. Theoretical knowledge is not enough, so go ahead to the computer. The programs "Photoshop" and "paint.net" are at your disposal.