Microsoft Photo Editor download
Download Microsoft Photo Editor here
Now I am not a fan of Microsoft at all, however Microsoft Photo Editor has one really useful function that I have yet to find in another program.
Basically it allows you to select a colour (or colours within a set tolerance) to be made transparent within an image. This is really useful and a really quick way of getting rid of a solid background colour. Of course this is not very useful when you have a background colour that is of varied colours - but never the less useful all the same.
To do this, select the transparent colour picker:
Select the tolerance:
And what do you know, the area you selected (or at least the area you selected within the tolerance) is now transparent.
Can this be done in Photoshop? If so I’d love to know how!!
Nikita Kouevda said
am June 15 2009 @ 3:11 am
Not only do PS, GIMP, and several other editors have a tool like this, but it’s even better in said software. In PS, you can use the Magic Wand Tool (brief description here: http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/tool/magic-wand.html). It uses the same concept, but it’s a selection tool, so it then allows you to manipulate that selection like any other, not simply to turn it into transparency, adding even more functionality. In GIMP, it’s called the Fuzzy Select Tool.
You can now safely go back to unconditionally hating Microsoft.