magicrobot Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hi I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to design some T-shirts using public domain clip art of old woodcuts and pen and ink illustrations. I want to have them printed by an online site. The trouble I'm having is making the image transparent so that the black line art is solid but the color of the t-shirt shows through. the illustrations are so intricate it is impossible to use the magic wand or erase the white area within the illustration. Is there a simple way to do what I want to do? Any help will be very appreciated.Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hello magicrobot, welcome! I'd recommend you install the 'grim color reaper ' plugin to turn the white transparent. Don't forget to save as a .png file (for transparency). look in the plugin index to find it http://forums.getpai...0-plugin-index/ If you're trying to extract from a coloured background, I have a plugin called 'recolour choice' that my help.(link in sig.) Mind you, I'd be surprised if a teeshirt printing company would try to print white on white? Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountnman Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 on black and white clip art i would be going with Adjustments/Black And Alpha Quote SARCASM- Just one of the many services I offer free to the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFX Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 You can try to adjust the hue/saturation/contrast levels in the "adjustments" tab to better isolate the background colors then try "Magic Wand" with flood mode set to "global" and a little tweaking of the % adjustment so it chooses all the same colors. I usually hold down the "CTRL" to add to selection, or "ALT" to remove from selection, while using magic wand as it's a fast way to select areas. If it's easier, you can just post the image here and ask someone for assistance also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 on black and white clip art i would be going with Adjustments/Black And Alpha That's a plugin which can be found here: Black and Alpha+ I'd also consider the isolate lineart plugin which does much the same thing - Isolate Lineart Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicrobot Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hi everyone, thanks for the advice. I'm new to digital art. As an old school traditional artist I get a bit lost at times. I went with the isolate lineart plug in first and it worked perfectly. I'll have to investigate all the plug ins for paint.net as I go. There's just so much to this stuff but its amazing! again, thank you all. Its easy to see there is a helpfull community here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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