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Old 03-30-2008, 09:06 PM
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Default Re: Favorite FREE Photo Effects?

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Originally Posted by BlueCrow View Post
Yes, being able to make the background transparent would make the image look better.
On most of these effects, once you're done rendering it, it will be on a white background (or a uniform color background). In that case the fastest way to make that background transparent is to use the Magic Eraser and click on the white background. It will go transparent.

But even easier, since you usually one usually uses Save to Web for the images is to do it there. So open Save for Web with the image. Click on Gif to save it in that format (since you want the transparency to work). Now click on the eyedropper on the left. Now click on the white area or background area around the effect. Then click on the transparency icon and its done.



Here is the image in the screen shot with transparent background:



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