@oreganocactus: sorry to bother you! i was wondering had any sort of tutorial for how to make transparent images? i'd love to make some of my own to use as assets in design and such, but i haven't found any good information on how to make them or what program to use. thank you for your time!
(sorry i accidentally deleted ur ask orz)
hi! no problem! i'm gonna show u the simplest way i do it for images with relatively simple backgrounds, which is what i prefer. ill be using this image & making the cat bread transparent:
let's go!
1. open photoshop! best program to use in my experience
2. select the quick selection tool (circled in red)
3. go to the top and click select subject!
this is the method that will work best if your backgrounds are relatively plain. if they're not, you're going to have to paint the selection on by hand, rather than the software doing it for you.
4. clean up the selection if necessary!
do u see the little dotted lines ("marching ants" is what they're called apparently) surrounding the cat bread? that's what the computer has deemed "the subject" of the image! it's pretty correct this time, except there are lines around the ears that will lead them to being cut out, which i don't want. so i cleaned that up a bit.
use the circled tools above ^ to clean it up. no more ants around the pink of the cat ears! i used the tool with the + sign because i wanted to add content from the image to the selection. use the - tool when u want to get rid of content.
5. add a vector mask! this will get rid of all of the content outside of the selection. it's in the lower right-hand corner:
6. select select and mask... at the top, right next to where select subject was!
this will open up settings for the image, like so:
tweak the smooth, feather, contrast, and shift edge settings until you feel like it looks right. smooth will simply smooth out edges that might be rough. feather will do the opposite, creating almost a gradient of transparency. contrast makes the edges sharper. shift edge shifts the edges of the image (obviously), taking away or giving back image material based on how u moved it.
all i did was smooth and contrast!
6.1. protip! press the |\ key to give a temporary reddish bg to the image so u can test how the edges look against smth that isn't the default transparent bg!
and that's it !! here is the finished product!:
not too shabby for a quick 5-min transparent. i hope this helped! let me know if u have any questions!
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I learned how to do Transparent backgrounds in Paint Tool SAI and I was SUPER EXCITED
So, I figured I'd maybe show you guys. Even though I'm sure a bunch of you already know.
so, you start off with your little doodle thang. here it has a background, right? Or so you think. There technically is no background at all.
So you sit there and think "dang this would look hella with a transparent background. Well, I want you to make another layer. Take that layer and put it BELOW YOUR ART.
Take that extra layer and bake a little color on it, just to be sure that you don't have any stray marks or anything. That looks great ye
now click that little eyeball thingy so it goes away like so. That should turn that layer invisible. I'm sure you can just delete the layer, but I'm not certain, so just do this anyway
aight, now go to File... Save As... and name it and save it as .png
after you click okay, or save, this little window should pop up. (IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS WINDOW, YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR PAINT TOOL SAI)
If you do, make SURE you click 32bpp ARGB, or else it's not gonna be transparent
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. Paint Tool SAI Transparency Tutorial. I'm sorry, I've never done a tutorial or anything, but my friend asked and there for I did.
