jlchj Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 I am new to Paint.NET. I have my hand written signature in black ink on paper with a gray and white background, and I have saved the signature as a .png. How can I extract the signature with outer and inside letter spaces being transparent and save it so I can use it as an insert on a document or a pdf? Sould it be saved as another file type? What is the process to extract the signature? Running v. 4.1.6. Win.7 s.p.1 Please detail correct response, and thanx bunches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 It would help if we could see the image (or at least part of it, if it's sensitive... being a signature and all). It would probably be easier to extract if you re-write your signature on white paper; rather than the mixed gray and white paper. Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlchj Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) I am attaching a portion of the signature. Obviously zoomed in. I started, in regular paint, to remove the shading and white. Whew! Very difficult. In Paint.NET, I was able to highlight only the signature (it had a flashing selection highlight indication). I forget how I did it. I could not figure how to save it independently. Edited June 17, 2019 by jlchj Image and selection description Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Ok, that's not so bad; a very solid background color. 1) Use the Color Picker () tool on the brown background color. 2) Run the Color Clearer plugin. Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlchj Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) Does Color Clearer delete all areas of selected color? Edited June 17, 2019 by jlchj verbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 You don't need to make a selection, the Color Clearer plugin should do all the work for you. Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHaveNoName Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) You can do much the same thing with Red Ochre's RecolourChoice plugin. Color Pick the paper background colour and set that as primary then change the plugin's setting for the replacement transparency colour (which can be anything ) to zero. Edited June 18, 2019 by IHaveNoName Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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