Make selection transparent

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3 total messages Started by Water Cooler v2 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:56

#113

Author: Water Cooler v2
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:56

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I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.

Kindly help.

Re: Make selection transparent

#111

Author: Johan W. Elzenga
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:46

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Water Cooler v2 <wtr_clr@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
> and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
> selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.

1: Make sure that you are working on a real layer, not the background
layer.

2: Make sure that there is no other (black) layer beneath the one you
are working on.

-- 
Johan W. Elzenga           johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
Editor / Photographer     http://www.johanfoto.com

Re: Make selection transparent

#112

Author: Toobi-Won Kenobi
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:09

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"Water Cooler v2" <wtr_clr@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:a1c9b90e-02d3-4eef-ad1c-59b159d1c2e0@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
> and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
> selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.
>
> Kindly help.

The background layer is "locked" by default, to delete pixels from this 
layer, (not a good idea, work on a copy of the layer, ctrl+j to copy))it 
need to be unlocked.
Alt+mose click on the name "background" layer.
To save the file as transparent, don't save as a JPG, use PNG.
TWK

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