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Photoshop Question.

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de8212

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I have just a plain word in 3D text that is in a gray color with a white background. How can I get it to have a transparent background?

thanks.
 
Use the Save For Web function (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S on PC) and select the background color with the eyedropper to be made transparent. You'll probably have some fringing, so if you know what color the text will be over, use the Matte Color function to select the same color to allow seamless layering.
 
THanks. that seemed to help but it's still giving me a problem. It saves it as a .gif. The program I need to insert the picture into (surething) doesn't seem to let me choose a .gif.

Then if Isave it as a tiff or bmp the background is still white.

any other ideas?
 
the only file formats that allow for transparency are .gif, .png
any others turn the transparent regions into white color
 
Open the file, select the white background using the magic wand and hit delete. It should delete the white space and make it transparent. If you need to select white space that is inside a letter (like the letters 'o' or 'a' etc), you can shift-click with the wand or you can deselect Contiguous and the wand will select everything that is white. Use the tolerance setting to adjust which shades of white will be grabbed.
 
No, I think you will need to use the "extract" function to remove it completely and make it transparent.
 
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