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How to make a background transparent

I've seen many post on how to make a background transparent and I've been to many tutorial sites and followed the directions to a T but I still can't get it to work. I've used the background eraser in psp8 and when I save it, it still has a colored background not transparent. Someone please explain to me what I'm doing wrong or tell me the steps of how to achieve this. Also how do you make the edges glow like on the example below. FYI I am a newbie so don't get to technical. Thank you so much. Here's an example

Last edited by JMO, January 23rd, 2004 11:10 AM (Edited 1 times)

Try making the image as a.gif
*what I do*

I try to match the image background to the color ofo the background I want to put it on, or make it a dark background.
Then go to colors/set color transparency

then select the color you want to make transparent
and save as a .gif

Ususally works, but if you want to keep the detail in a pic its kinda hard to do.

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and remember that if your background is the same color as some of the detail in your GIF, that detail in your GIF will also become transparent. I normally choose a color not even in my image as the background then make it transparent and safe as GIF. As for the glow, you could use the airbrush with the transparency and hardness set differently, or you could get a third party plugin filter to do the glow for you.

the image has to be a raster layer. go to layers->new raster layer

Last edited by oblivious, February 2nd, 2004 11:49 PM (Edited 1 times)

I got the transparency thing now. Thanks . But I still don't know how to make that glow around the image.

Duplicate the layer (and make sure that your new layer is below the layer you want to give a glow to). Select the new layer and adjust the brightness to +255. Then apply a gaussian blur on the duplicate layer.

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Thanks Xaimus. I'll try that when I get home.