This image was a JPEG image so it already had a white background. This is the image resized to fit onto the canvas. This other image on the canvas is a PNG image.

When you try to save such an image, the background area of the image will no longer be transparent and turns into solid color; in most cases, white i.e. Color 2.

The white text has been created to be placed on a black background, i.e. there are a few pixels around the text, gradually taking the colour from white to black.<BR><BR>I need to reverse this.

Still, if you want to just quickly remove the white background from an image and make something transparent for use in a blog or making a meme, it's quite easy to do. Here's how.

When putting together graphic designs or editing photos, opaque backgrounds on images can be a hindrance - so knowing how to make the background transparent in Photoshop is a useful trick. Whether ...