I am new to PhotoShop. I have checked past messages, and I think maybe the contributors are leaving out a step somewhere because they know what they're doing and figure it's obvious. I've consulted the manual and PhotoShop Help and am still stumped. I know this is an elementary question.
I have PhotoShop 7 & Illustrator 10. I have an image of balloons & confetti--lots of little lines, shapes, balloon strings, etc. I want the background to be clear instead of white. The image is a .jpg, and I converted it to a .gif as well.
I tried the magic wand (there's a good contrast between the images and the white background), but there are so many little shapes and lines that I got lost in what I had selected and what I hadn't. I also didn't know what to do after I'd selected the images. What tells the program to pull the image out of the white background?
Can anyone help me? At my level, I need steps. I work for a nonprofit that has no money to send me to class, and I'm obviously looking under the wrong keywords in the manual, or else something is just not clicking. Thanks for your patience.
I have PhotoShop 7 & Illustrator 10. I have an image of balloons & confetti--lots of little lines, shapes, balloon strings, etc. I want the background to be clear instead of white. The image is a .jpg, and I converted it to a .gif as well.
I tried the magic wand (there's a good contrast between the images and the white background), but there are so many little shapes and lines that I got lost in what I had selected and what I hadn't. I also didn't know what to do after I'd selected the images. What tells the program to pull the image out of the white background?
Can anyone help me? At my level, I need steps. I work for a nonprofit that has no money to send me to class, and I'm obviously looking under the wrong keywords in the manual, or else something is just not clicking. Thanks for your patience.