Linda
09-11-2005, 01:21 AM
This is a great way to get rid of a background and make it transparent or you can even get rid of colors within your image. In this lesson, I will show you how to remove the background.
Here is the image I will be working on -
<table width="300" align="center" border="1">
<tr><td align="center">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/General1/daisyonblack.gif</td></tr> </table>
Go to Imagemagick http://mirror.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi and click on "browse" and find your image name, click on it and then click "open". Now "press to view" and wait for your image to appear.
When the next page comes up, scroll down and set these coordinates - in "fuzz" backspace everything out and type in 1111. Under "method" choose "replace" and for "paint type", choose "matte". In the "fill color" option - backspace out what is in there and type in "transparent".
Move your cursor (which will become a cross) to the part that you want to transparify and click. Notice when your image appears, the part where you clicked has now changed. Continue clicking the areas that you want to make transparent. If it was only one color, like the solid background in my example - one click will do it. If there is more than one color, just keep on clicking until you erase all the color that you want removed.
When you are finished, click on the "output" tab up top and wait for the next page. When it appears, choose "gif" for the format and "press to output". When it appears again, double click on it to bring it up on a page by itself and then right click and save it to your computer.
Here is the finished image -
<table width="300" align="center" border="1">
<tr><td align="center">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/General1/daisyonblack22.gif</td></tr> </table>
Here is the image I will be working on -
<table width="300" align="center" border="1">
<tr><td align="center">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/General1/daisyonblack.gif</td></tr> </table>
Go to Imagemagick http://mirror.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi and click on "browse" and find your image name, click on it and then click "open". Now "press to view" and wait for your image to appear.
When the next page comes up, scroll down and set these coordinates - in "fuzz" backspace everything out and type in 1111. Under "method" choose "replace" and for "paint type", choose "matte". In the "fill color" option - backspace out what is in there and type in "transparent".
Move your cursor (which will become a cross) to the part that you want to transparify and click. Notice when your image appears, the part where you clicked has now changed. Continue clicking the areas that you want to make transparent. If it was only one color, like the solid background in my example - one click will do it. If there is more than one color, just keep on clicking until you erase all the color that you want removed.
When you are finished, click on the "output" tab up top and wait for the next page. When it appears, choose "gif" for the format and "press to output". When it appears again, double click on it to bring it up on a page by itself and then right click and save it to your computer.
Here is the finished image -
<table width="300" align="center" border="1">
<tr><td align="center">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/General1/daisyonblack22.gif</td></tr> </table>