Removing thumbnail background

[KathyC]

I'm very new at this so please be patient. How can you easily remove the background from clipart. I just want the symbol not the white border around it.

[Bayla]

With the magic wand (and contiguous unchecked), click on any of the white which will select all the white. Then Ctrl-Shift-I to invert the selection, Ctrl-J to copy the selection to a new layer. You should then have your motif on its own layer with a transparent background.

Bayla

[KathyC]

Thank you very much.

[KathyC]

Hello Bayla. I was looking through your Gallery and you have beautiful pictures - one especially you indicated that you followed "Timothy's Vintage Border" - can you please provide the link.

[Bayla]

HERE is the link to Timothy's tutorial. There are a couple of different ones in the thread. The instructions are quite long - once I'd created a couple of borders I saved them as .png files.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the instructions!

Bayla

[KathyC]

WOW, I read the information and it is long - I'm so new at this I hope I can figure it out. Thanks for your help.

[elwoodsusanm]

Am I right in thinking in Timothy's tutorial that in Step 4 selected map: schnable effect is just another copy of the image? This bit is unclear (well to me anyway)

[Bayla]

When you click OK on the Displacement Map filter dialog box you then have to navigate to where the Schnable Effect Displacement map is found - for me it was C:>Program Files>Adobe>PSE6>Plugins>Displacement Maps.

Hope this helps.

Bayla

PS. Post #12 in Timothy's thread explains Step 4.

[elwoodsusanm]

I have PSE5. Tried your suggestion. Got no items match your description

[Bayla]

Originally Posted by elwoodsusanm

I have PSE5. Tried your suggestion. Got no items match your description

Strange. I have PSE3 on my computer as well, and I can find them by using the same pathway but going via PSE3 instead, so I'm sure they must be there in PSE5!

Bayla