Transparent background troubles

[phantomluvr14]

Hey there everyone,

Im fairly new to paint.net and I have yet to really learn all of its capabilities. I'm designing a logo to go on a website, but every time I go to change the white background to transparent (I've tried the Magic Wand and deleting, and I've tried using Fill with a transparent color), and save as a PNG, I can still see the white background when I open the image in other programs. I can also see it when I upload it to the website. Would anyone know why this is?

Thanks

[odeho19]

Hi there. I don't know if THIS is exactly what you're trying to accomplish, but I'm trying to do the same thing you are I think, so here it goes. I was trying to eliminate the black background from this pic:

What I did was, on the "Colors" tool in the bottom left-hand corner, I expanded the "More" option. Then in the lower left-hand corner of THAT tool box, I clicked on the very tiny transparency box. (see image below)

Then I adjusted the "transparency alpha" to 255, for maximum effect. The next tool I used was the Paintbucket, (from the "Tools" box in the upper left hand corner). I set the tolerance rather low (21% for MY pic) so as to "fill" in everything around my subject, and NOT the subject itself, and then left clicked on the outside of the subject itself, but inside the edge of the actual pic. So, in MY instance, I clicked on the black background. (I hope that makes sense to you. I'm rather new to this also). Fortunately, for me, this filled in, ( or rather, eliminated all of the black background) and then I just chose "Save As" from my File tab, and proceeded on from there. As I said before, I don't know if this will work EXACTLY as you need it, but at least it might be a start for what you want to accomplish. Here is my final shot.

Good Luck!

Odean

Edited August 4, 2011 by odeho19

[Simon Brown]

Is the background transparent in the save preview? If so, try clicking the "default" button in the dialog before clicking OK.

[pdnnoob]

@odeho19 I believe you just filled your background with white...check again and make sure I'm not wrong. A transparent background should show up in PDN as checkered

[phantomluvr14]

@odeho19... Thanks for the detailed demonstration, but that's what I had been trying and it didn't work for me. I ended up with the same white background.

[barbieq25]

pdnnoob, you are correct.

odeho19, using the magic wand at default, you can select the black around your image in one click & then press delete. You should now see a grey & white checkerboard where the black was to indicate transparency. To smooth off the edges use Feather at a setting you think is suitable.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Remeber to save the file in a format that supports transparency (*.png or *.gif). A file that doesn't support transparency will fill the devoid areas with......... white.

[phantomluvr14]

Thanks everyone! Problem solved

[odeho19]

I see.....said the blind boy...Thanks you guys. It worked perfectly AS you all knew it would!

[Tethys]

pdnnoob, you are correct.

odeho19, using the magic wand at default, you can select the black around your image in one click & then press delete. You should now see a grey & white checkerboard where the black was to indicate transparency. To smooth off the edges use Feather at a setting you think is suitable.

Ahhhh, that's how you make an image transparent. Talk about frustratingly easy . Thanks for the pointer!!