Digi-Art Tutorial: Eliminating White Pixels in Photoshop

A brief and easy to follow tutorial, demonstrating how to quickly eliminate white pixels from a layer (making your background transparent) in an Adobe Photoshop file, using Alpha Channels.

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Howto & Style

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• Digi-Art
• digiart
• How to
• Digital Drawing
• Digital Art
• Adobe Photoshop
• Comic Book
• Digital Comic books
• Freddie WIlliams II
• Speed Painting
• Robin Comics Book Artist
• Transparent Background
• tutorial

[Caridor83]

Thank U Friend, real time saver. :)

[FreddieArtMedia]

@Caridor83

No Problem-o!

[eonprez]

Cool... Nice work on the video, too!

-Brett

[FreddieArtMedia]

@eonprez

Ha!

Thanks!

[angeltread]

i like this method but it seems a bit long. if you are starting with a "bitmap" piece that means its only black and white pixels (in other words no anti-alias)... simply magic wand the black pixels (with "continuous" and "anti alias" off, i simply set the range to 1 cause that's truly what it is) it will select all the black pixels in the piece. then simply copy and paste onto a new black layer. same result as this vid. less steps though.

[FreddieArtMedia]

Good point about the bitmapped line - I added an annotation about its equal usefulness for bitmap or anti-aliased line art!

Thanks!

[EnviousElk]

This was very helpful! Thanks, dude!

[MrGreedIsGood]

YOU SAVE MY LIFE MAN!!!

F*** you man for being so awesome!! :D

[thatonegirludontknow]

Thanks a bunch! This'll be useful in the future.

[TIKOMIX]

@FreddieArtMedia Nice Freddie!  Just to add...with Freddie's method even if you down sample the image and it becomes anti aliased along the way the channel will still hold a true transparency.

[angeltread]

@FreddieArtMedia - groovy. good to know it works for anti-aliased as well and might very well be the method ive been searching for, for dealing with anti-aliased linework.