Removing White Background

[newman45]

Morning,

Everytime I do a screen dump or take a logo and work with it there is always a white background to it,

so anytime I want to merge a logo on another logo or template my logo always has a white background to it.

How do I stop that? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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If you just go into paint and type any word, then click "crop to selection" and save file in .gif format, when

I go to place that logo on top of another logo there is a white square background around it that I don't want.

Any ideas of how to remove this?

Thanks

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http://www.windows-xp-update.com

[Mike Ryan]

Can you post a picture of what you mean?

[Curmudgeon]

If the image is supposed to have transparency, it needs to be saved as an image type which supports transparency, such as .png, .tga or .gif

If you need to do a cut-out of the image from a white (or any other color background) then you'll have to do that manually. You can use this tutorial here:

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4841&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[newman45]

Help - If you just go into paint and type any word, then click "crop to selection" and save file in .gif format, when

I go to place that logo on top of another logo there is a white square background around it that I don't want.

Any ideas of how to remove this?

Thanks

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http://www.windows-xp-update.com

[Simon Brown]

@newman: Follow the tutorial Curmudgeon mentioned.

[Curmudgeon]

Help - If you just go into paint and type any word, then click "crop to selection" and save file in .gif format, when

I go to place that logo on top of another logo there is a white square background around it that I don't want.

If you start up Paint.NET and type a word on the background, it's on a white background to begin with.

Do this:

Start up Paint.NET, then press Ctrl-A to select the whole background, then press the Delete key. Then type a word and crop your image. Save it as a .gif, .png or .tga and you're done.

[MattBlackLamb]

Also, make sure your secondary colour is set to transparent (click the More button on the colour window), that should stop paint.net adding any colours around images you import