[photoshop-beginners] Re: PS CS3 white back to transparent

Barbara, if it's the background layer that you're trying to remove white from, make sure you change the locked background to a regular layer by highlighting that background layer(it must be blue) and double clipping on it to change it to layer 0 (a little window pops up for you to name the layer, if desired) and then hit okay. Now use magic wand on backgound and it will be transparent (gray and white checkerboard).

--- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, "Barbara Ann Covil West" <barbannwest@...> wrote:
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> you could use the magic wand and click on the white background and then use the key and click delete this should change the background to transparent--I hope this is what you were asking--Barb a newbie
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> --- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, "Joet" <joseph.tansey@> wrote:
> >
> > choose transparent background to start with. Or create a new layer and
> > delete the white background layer.
> >
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> > From: "SueK" <sue@>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:26 PM
> > To: <photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [photoshop-beginners] PS CS3 white back to transparent
> >
> > > Once I start a document and I give it a white page background, is there
> > > any way to change the page to be a transparent backgrond? Or do I have
> > > to start a new document all over again.
> > >
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