![]() Paint users select this option and hope that their Save Image will have a transparent background. The Transparent Selection option only works within paint application and it only works with a white background. Copy and paste this selection to another area of the image.Ĭlick small arrow on Select tool under Image group and check Transparent Selection now Select area of the Image that contains part of the image and part of the white background. You will see that the white part of selection is transparent. However, when you save image, white area of the image will not be transparent. Fortunately, there is a hack that you can use to have images with transparent backgrounds. However, you need Microsoft PowerPoint for this hack to work. If you have Microsoft PowerPoint installed, you are ready to go. Follow these steps to remove background color from your image. In Picture Tools, go to Adjust group and click Color Select Set Transparent Color. The color selection tool will be attached to your mouse cursor. Precisely click in your picture on the color you want to remove. You will see color being removed instantaneously. Right click Picture and click Save As Picture. Choose PNG from Save As type dropdown menu in Save As Picture dialogue box. * Please keep in mind that all text is machine-generated, we do not bear any responsibility, and you should always get advice from professionals before taking any actions.On Windows 10, you have the Paint app which has been around since Windows 98, and there is Paint 3D which is a new app added in Windows 10 for creating 3D projects. How to make a picture transparent in the Paint app We’re going to show you how you can make a background transparent in both apps. Open in Paint the image that you want to make a transparent background. You will see a ‘Select’ button on the toolbar. You will see two selection options Rectangular selection, and Free-form selection. You can choose either one of these tools and they will do the job. The trick is to know what suits your image and how skilled you are with selecting/outlining an object with a mouse or trackpad, or whatever device you have. The rectangle selection tool only lets you outline/select items in a rectangle. The Free-form tool doesn’t confine you to a specific shape and makes for a more accurate selection around an object. Use one of the tools and select only the part that you’d like to include in the image. Everything outside the selection will be removed. Once you’ve made the selection, open the Select dropdown again, and select the ‘Invert Selection’ option. The background will be removed leaving only the selected object on the canvas. The background is going to be white and that’s really how Paint handles transparency. How to make an image transparent in Paint 3D It doesn’t support the alpha channel so you can’t get the same transparent background you could if you were to use or you can use Paint 3D. At the top, you’re going to see a bunch of controls. In this panel turn on the ‘Transparent canvas’ switch.Ĭlick the ‘Select’ tool and create an outline around the object that you want to include in the image. Paint 3D doesn’t have a free-form selection tool. Instead, it has a tool called ‘Magic select’. ![]() It will automatically remove content around the object that it thinks you don’t want to include. You can choose to accept or reject this selection.Īnother option to play with here is the ‘Autofill background’ option. Uncheck it, and see how accurate the selection is. If it’s not accurate, repeat the selection process but do not uncheck the ‘Autofill background’ option. ![]() Once your object has been selected, click the copy button. Go to the Canvas tab again, and turn on the transparent canvas option. Once the option has been enabled, you can paste the copied selection from the previous file into the new one. The object will be pasted on a transparent background. When it’s saving, make sure you save it as an image and in the PNG format. Paint and Paint 3D comes installed out-of-the-box on Windows 10. In a pinch, they’re reasonably good apps to use. Paint 3D is better than Paint but, if you have a little time you can learn how to make a background transparent with or with GIMP. It’s fairly easy to do since it supports layers. ![]()
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