Replace black background with a transparent background
Question
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders.
Could you please share actions in either photoshop or gimp, thanks.
Accepted Answer
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro has this functionality out of the box. It is a function called "Remove Matte", where you just specify the color component you want to be replaced with transparency. In your case black.
This is the result:
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Popular Answer
And just to be complete, here is the GIMP answer.
Just do:
- Colors > Color to Alpha ...
- select Black
- Click OK
if "Color to Alpha ..." is greyed out you need to set the Image mode to something else than indexed, e.g.:
- Image > Mode > RGB