Making a background transparent

[vwbusdrver]

I have a single layered piece and want to make the background, which is black, transparent. I tried selecting the magic wand and the magnetic lasso to capture the image without the background. They only grabbed certain parts, can anyone help!! Thank-you p.s. using P.S. 6

 

[PetitPal]

Try making the tolerance on the magic wand a little higher and make sure that the Contiguous flag is set. If that doesn't work then you could be in for a bit of a 'create path', 'create selection from path', 'invert', 'delete' jobbie to make your outline.

Oh yeah, just remembered; try the Select, Colour Range option.

=)

PetitPal

 

[mscallisto]

Of course you probably already know that after the initial magic wand click, hold the shift key down and continue to click with the magic wand to add to the "grabbed" part.

If this is a bad answer let me know. I've only been using PS5.5 for a couple of years and consider myself a Rookie at best.

 

[jackal63]

I find it alot easier to select teh single colour background, in your case black then when I have all the background selected, just right click on it and use Select Inverse to select everything that's not the background colour.