Quick photoshop question re: transparency?

[beer]

I have two PSD files. One of them is going to be overlaid on the other. There's a certain color I'd like to remove from the palette or marked as transparent (I can do this with GIF I know). How do I replace or remove the color and make it the source of transparency so I can re-import the image as a transparent layer on another?

 

[beer]

help

 

[Beau]

Use the magic wand and set the tolerance to 0 and uncheck continguous. click on a pixel that has the color you want to declude. Press CTRL+shift+i, cut the pixels, paste them into a new layer. You should be able to overlay the new layer on top of anything and get the transparency.

 

[ddwbi0]

OR you could erase the color you dont want....pixel by pixel...........or maybe not

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: ddwbi0
OR you could erase the color you dont want....pixel by pixel...........or maybe not

That's what I would have suggested. Magic wand + <delete>

nik

 

[beer]

That's what I ended up doing. Took about half an hour, not too bad....it was a lot of work tho.

 

[worth]

How about Select - Color Range?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: worth
How about Select - Color Range?

Because there might be those same colors in the picture that he wants to keep. It's like using a blue screen but then trying to dress the actor in a blue shirt. Doesn't work all the time.

nik