Transparent Archive Guide

[cuddlewuffle]

If not too busy could I get quick transparent of this gal?
Thank you!

there you are! C:

[Mossclaw3706]

hi! i love this idea and think it will definitely be helpful! however I think the link to the tutorial in the first post is broken? :) i'd love to help but not sure how! thanks!

[Aliria]

hi! i love this idea and think it will definitely be helpful! however I think the link to the tutorial in the first post is broken? i'd love to help but not sure how! thanks!

I think someone explained it on the previous page c:

[legendari]

aa this is awesome, thank you so much! <3

[ghostmaker]

i read the short "tutorial" of how to make the backgrounds transparent, but i still don't understand. any help?

[acatalepsy]

i read the short "tutorial" of how to make the backgrounds transparent, but i still don't understand. any help?

xxxxx□What is confusing about it for you?

[nickjr]

Here's another method. Unfortunately, I haven't had access to Photoshop for a while now, so I don't know the exact names of things, but this should give you an idea.

NOTE 1: DOESN'T WORK FOR ALL PETS; you'll figure out which pets this doesn't work for soon

NOTE 2: For the pets that you can use this method on, you do not need to own the pet!

NOTE 3: This method doesn't necessarily get you a "perfect" image, but I'd say it's close enough

Step 1: get the URL of the pet image from the archives

http://static.chickensmoothie.com/archi ... &bg=aac4da

Step 2: You see that last part? Many of you will probably recognize it as the background color.

CHANGE IT to a VERY DISTINCT COLOR that is NOT in the same color "family" (defined loosely--think of this: "Are these the same color?" "Yeah but they're different shades"--you DO NOT want that answer) as ANY of the colors on the pet
(DO NOT USE DARK COLORS)

(IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, you have a wider range: you just need to avoid the color families that are along the edges of the pet)


http://static.chickensmoothie.com/archi ... &bg=00ff00

Step 3: There should be a tool that's like an eraser that only erases a certain color. Set the threshold to a very low value but NOT 0 unless you have an option to anti-alias the edges of the erased sections (otherwise it'll look like you went into MS Paint to get rid of the BG).

Step 4: Now erase all of the bright color. How you do this depends on your exact tool. Maybe you just click on an area with the color and BOOM all areas of that color are gone. Maybe you need to find a setting that's like "contiguous" or "non-contiguous" and change that setting. Maybe you have an actual eraser but it only erases the same color as what's under the middle of the eraser.

In my case, I would erase all of that bright green.

Done

Sorry for poor formatting. I'm short on time.

Feel free to prettify this thing.

[ghostmaker]

i read the short "tutorial" of how to make the backgrounds transparent, but i still don't understand. any help?

xxxxx□What is confusing about it for you?

well, i think i got it now, but i'll let you know if i still need help. thanks anyways!

[jetred]

I was wondering if anyone can make these transparent for me, please?




Thank you!

[jetred]

Thank you ever so much, Aliria!