The Image You see here is a magnified portion of the image - image7.jpg
You will notice in the picture that I have the eyedropper tool over one of the pixels which shows you that that pixel is not exactly white (which would read R:255 G:255 B:255). You can see in this image that there are several pixels that are not pure "white".
Thus with this image to get a transparent background you will need to select all the white AND nearly white pixels surrounding the image you want to keep.
The easiest way on this image would be to use the magic wand tool and set the Tolerance high enough to surround all the white and near white pixels. this image shows the result of setting the tolerance to 19 and then clicking on the image (the "ants" surround the selection area)
If you then hit the delete key the selected area will change to whatever the background solid color
seen here
as white.
Note that because this image started as a jpg it will open as a single layer "Background" image. And that this image happens to have a 16M Color palette.
The next step to transparency will be to go to the Colors menu and choose Set Palette Transparency or use the keyboard shortcut - Shift+Ctrl+V
You will get the dialog box for Decrease Color Depth - 256 Colors
Click OK to take the defaults
Then the Set Palette Transparency dialog box appears
Choose the "Set the transparency value to the current background color" and Click on OK.
Now save the image as a GIF file and the will be saved with the color (R:255 G:255 B:255) set as transparent. In other words, with a transparent background. It is IMPORTANT to save as a GIF because if you just save it will save as a jpg file and jpg does not support transparency.
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