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Transparent backgrounds again 2

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RonLF06

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Oct 29, 2008
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I want to montage small photos onto a large one. I erase the background of the small photos, but they only erase to white. I need feathery edges, so a clipping path is not appropriate. How do I erase a background to transparent?

 

...press and hold alt/option key, double click the layer that is a locked "background", then anything you delete becomes transparent...

andrew
 
That's the one – so simple, and I'd forgotten it! And with the eraser set as brush, opacity can be lowered for partial transparency. Thanks a lot.
 
Thanks Spamjim. Have never got my head round masks and it's past time I did.
 
Masks are actually really simple. If you remember back when you were a kid at how they had you make a pinhole into a piece of paper to watch the eclipse, masks work in a very similar fashion.

A crude example of this would be to take a photograph and a white piece of paper and cut the paper to have a square hole. This is now your "mask." You can glide the mask around the image and it shows ONLY what is in the hole.

See? Simple! :)
 
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