Forum: Photoshop

Subject: how do i do this?

mabaza opened this issue on Sep 24, 2005 · 5 posts

mabaza posted Sat, 24 September 2005 at 4:13 PM

Hey gang, I want to create a texture that incorporates the attached logo, which I found using good old Google Image search. The problem is that I want to take only the white part of the logo, and replace the black part with transparency. I'm sure this is devilishly simple, but searches for tutorials turned up nothing and the HTML help was no help (sorry for the pun)

aprilgem posted Sat, 24 September 2005 at 6:22 PM

Use the image itself as an alpha mask. Should be pretty easy after that.

tantarus posted Sat, 24 September 2005 at 11:25 PM

Go to select-color ramge and just click OK. Press delete and the background should be gone, if the letters are deleted instead just CTRL+Z and then CTRL+SHIFT+I to inverse the selection and then delete ;) Hope this will help you ;) Tihomir

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Bakkti posted Sun, 25 September 2005 at 6:46 AM

Opened image in PS 7.1. Made a copy of bg layer. Ctrl-clicked RGB icon in Channels palette. Went to Select>Inverse. Hit Delete and got the text on transparency (what you wanted). Ctrl-clicked New Layer icon in Layers Palette (loads new layer *under* current selected layer). Got a blue forground colour. Hit Alt+Backspace to fill.

Hope you like.

-- Jiger --

mabaza posted Mon, 26 September 2005 at 10:01 PM

Thanks for all your help guys!