I have some line art. It's black and white, and I was wondering if there is a way to make the white background transparent.

I can't figure it out and I'm at the end of my rope with the art.

i think this should work, however you will have your line art against a checkered background and to me that is anoying, but anyway. take a lasso tool and select areas and hit delete, that should do it, you can do small or lagres areas at a time . goodluck

legendkiller13
i think this should work, however you will have your line art against a checkered background and to me that is anoying, but anyway. take a lasso tool and select areas and hit delete, that should do it, you can do small or lagres areas at a time . goodluck

It'd be quicker to use 'select by colour' (or whichever equivalent tool it is) and then delete. You'd have to experiment with the tolerance though because otherwise you'll still have grey areas around the black lines which looks horrible if you're planning to colour underneath.
Both ways'd work.

However, in the program I use (GIMP) it doesn't allow transparency on the background layer unless you select the 'add alpha channel' option. If that's what you're having problems with then either do that (or whatever is the equivalent in the program you use) or put the lineart in as its own layer in a new file, or just as a new layer in what you're using and then delete the background layer. Then it'd work fine.
Ugh, I suck at explaining things. v_v

In Photoshop, you can just set the lineart layer to multiply.

anyone know how to select only the line art in Paintshop Pro, or should i just take my computer and chuck it out the window, and THEN install Gimp, which seems to be the program of choice around here?

Corvin

quick GIMP trick

"Layer>transparency>color to alpha" (It'll also automatically add the alpha channel.)

Setting the layer to multiply also works.

so i guess i should just give up and switch to gimp?

Corvin

Gimp is a great option, but if you have photoshop, you could just change the layer type to multiply, it will also do the trick.

yadiel
Gimp is a great option, but if you have photoshop, you could just change the layer type to multiply, it will also do the trick.

That'll work in the gimp as well. Same thing with paint.net and I believe PSP.