[remove background white but not middle]

The method welsblue describes is the recommended way of doing things and I use it a lot for more complicated graphics. In this case I'd fill the eclipse with black, cut off the bottom part, add another black rectangle to match the text rectangle and use that layer as an alpha mask.

However, I also use another way of doing things that suits this image well. It’s kind of the opposite of an alpha mask.

(In the example above, the bottom two layers are not really necessary. It’s just my own way of making sure I keep a copy of the original image and use a high contrast background to check for rough edges)

1. Set your primary colour to white

2. Use the Grim Color Reaper plugin by Jotaf to remove all the white

3. On a new layer above, use the Eclipse tool holding the shift key to draw a perfect circle as close to the original

4. Use the Move Selected Pixels tools to fine-tune your circle in place and fill it with white (hit the Backspace button on the keyboard)

5. Use the Rectangle Select tool to select the cut-off part at the bottom of the white circle and press the Delete button on the keyboard.

6. Using the Rectangle Select tool, select rectangular area just inside the bottom “sky sports” rectangle. Make sure it covers all the text. Fill the rectangle with white (Backspace button again)

7. Move the top layer below the reaped layer and merge the two layers.

Ok, but now when I save the file as a jpg, it just fills up all the transparent space with white again?

Does it have to be a gif?

[remove background white but not middle]

Draw your ellipse on a new layer ... use the move selection tool to get it to the size you want (Pressing shift while you draw makes a perfect circle) Once your happy with the ellipse fill it with any colour. Use the Rectangle Select tool to cut it flush with where the sky sports circle ends.

Next duplicate your logo >>> go back to the layer with the filled ellipse >>> click outside the circle >>> go back to one of your logo layers and press delete on your keyboard. You can now delete the filled ellipse layer

Go back to the untouched logo layer and use the Rectangle Select tool to cut away the cricketer, leaving the skysports text >>> use magic wand to get rid of the white around that >>> Use AA-Assistant to clean up the edges

Done

Thanks.

Out of interest, why the step to cut away the cricketer? Couldn't I just use the ellipse select and paste that onto a transparent layer in a new file?

I got to the delete ellipse step but it didn;t seem to do anything, just left me with the original layer.

Next duplicate your logo >>> go back to the layer with the filled ellipse >>> click outside the circle >>> go back to one of your logo layers and press delete on your keyboard. You can now delete the filled ellipse layer

Can't seem to get that. I delete the logo but it just leaves a transparent layer.

When I delete the filled ellipse layer, I am just back to square 1 with the original logo.

print screen here:

[remove background white but not middle]

I need to remove the background white from this picture and make is transparent but not the middle bit with the player.

Any ideas how I can do this?

I thought about removing the bottom rectangle and then putting an ellipse around it but it's not a perfect circle...it's flat at the bottom.

Also, I can't seem to get the perfect ellipse size or move it.

How do you select an ellipse once you've made it and resize it?

[remove background]

Make sure that any joins in your outlining are completely joined up. And always draw the tracing on a new layer.

Some images are harder to trace around and I think you've got one of the examples there

It's not the tracing so much as that when I select inside the trace, the sensitivity isn't picking up all of the white area due to shading because the magic wand picks up based on the colour you click on not on the trace.

If I select the red trace line, then the magic wand only selects the red trace line not the actual pipe inside of the trace.

[remove background]

When I trace around an image in red lines, sometimes I cannot select the image inside even chaging sensitivity options.

I am following this tutorial:

Isn't there a way to get it to select/fill everything inside a red trace and then cut that from the original layer?

Using the above tutorial, it only selects base don sensitivity in the magic wand.

I tried another using hue but that doesn't work on this image.

[remove background]

I have traced around a new image in red.

However, when I use the magic wand to select inside, it does not select all of the image, I've tried adjusting the sensitivity, etc.

Isn't there a way just to tell it to select everything inside the red trace so I can invert it?

[remove background]

Run Feather a couple of times.

I did on a setting of 2. Do I select all and run feather or does it have to be after cutting the image?

Using the Ellipse Selection tool and then Move Selection tool to get the edges right.

Ran AA assistant a couple of times

I tried this and I am unable to select the ellipse once I have drawn it.

[remove background]

try this http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/14090-remove-tricky-backgrounds/

Thanks I followed that but it seems a little rough on the edge selection.

Any ideas what IO might have done wrong?

[remove background]

I have 1 picture with a blue background and a metal steel basin.

I would like to remove the background and change the colour to white.

What's the best way to go about this?

Background is a material so it's not all perfectly the same colour, very slight different shades of blue in the picture.

The turotials say outline it but this is a circular metal object.

I tried using the circle tool but I can't get it exact and there seems to be no way to select a circle.

[Blending, pencil drawing,]

I am trying to follow this tutorial:

http://www.howtogeek.com/68762/how-to-make-photos-look-like-pencil-drawings-in-about-one-minute/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=250711&utm_content=emailsidebar

but I get to this section and there is no blending mode in Paint.net

Make a second copy of your black and white layer, and then set this layer to blending mode “Color Dodge,” shown highlighted in blue, on the right. We’ll be referring to this layer as our “Color Dodge” layer from here on out.

ANy ideas what to do?

[white text, need to make blue on grey background]

I don't think he meant to magic wand select the letters. I think he meant to create a rectangular selection around the text and to use the recolor tool switching the white to blue.

I tried it, and since the text is anti-aliased, I found it impossible to get the right tolerance to change the white to blue.

What I'd do, is to clone stamp the bottom all gray over the text, and then create new blue text on a separate layer.

like this:

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I'm not sure what the font is though...

[white text, need to make blue on grey background]

Search for the recolor tool.

Te recolor tool doesn't work because I can't select all of the letter.

It has particular problems with any letters with o in the middle like p, o, Q, etc. but isn't picking all of curved letters either.

Try it on the image above, you'lls ee it doesn't pick up the pixels correctly.

[white text, need to make blue on grey background]

I have an image, which has white text with surrounding grey.

I need to make the text blue.

The wand tool does not select every single bit of the letters so any other ways to make it blue?

People have talked about plugins and stuff but they do not seem to be in my version of paint 3.36.

Example of logo (it's the text on the bottom)

[Make white text transparent]

Here http://www.getpaint.net/search.html

or

Here search.php

Where's the download for the zip file? It's just a series of links to newer links to newer links but can't find it

[Make white text transparent]

Here http://www.getpaint.net/search.html

or

Here search.php

Where's the download for the zip file? It's just a series of links to newer links to newer links but can't find it

[Make white text transparent]

Where is the colour filter?

Recolor just seems to spray paint across the image.

[Make white text transparent]

Where is the colour filter?

Recolor just seems to spray paint across the image.

[Make white text transparent]

I have a logo with some white text. I want to make the text blue.

Just using fill doesn't seem to get all the pixels so I thought I could put a blue background behind it, then paste the current layer of grey brackground and white text over it.

Any ideas how to do that?

[Make white text transparent]

I have a logo with some white text. I want to make the text blue.

Just using fill doesn't seem to get all the pixels so I thought I could put a blue background behind it, then paste the current layer of grey brackground and white text over it.

Any ideas how to do that?

[transparent color]

Alpha Mask?

It's not actually a text layer, it's just a .gif with text in it hence why I don't have the fonts.

[transparent color]

and then what?

All it does is select some of the white text. I need to make it transparent somehow to show the other layer.

Also, how do I get the other layer to appear behind?

[transparent color]

Hi

I have some white text on a grey background.

I want to make the text blue but can't do it using the color picker or bucket tolerance as it doesn't pick up all the text perfectly.

Also, I don't have the font.

So, I created an extra layer that is entirely blue.

How do I make the white text on the first layer transparent?

[make existing white background transparent]

How do I make an existing white background transparent?

Also, there is some white text on a picture in the middle - this needs to remain the same.

Am trying to make an icon out of a picture.

[cannot uninstall v2.72]

nope, still there even after a couple of restarts.

Any ideas for a registry setting?

[cannot uninstall v2.72]

That worked, except I now have another slightly small bug.

When I now right click on a JPG file and select "Open With", the text still displays v2.72 instead of the newer version.

The file opens correctly though...