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This How.com.vn teaches you how to separate an image from its background in Microsoft Paint, using a computer. Paint can filter out the background color of an image if the background is a solid color, and you can paste it onto another picture. However, it doesn't allow you to save images with a transparent background, and any transparent areas will appear as white in the saved picture.
Steps
Open your image in Microsoft Paint. Right-click your image file, hover over Open with, and select Paint on the app list.- This must be an image with a solid background color or white background.
Select Color 2 on the toolbar. You will have to select your image's background color as your Color 2 here.- For example, if your image's background is white, you will have to set Color 2 to the same shade of white here.
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Click the eyedropper tool on the toolbar.
Click your image's background. This will set your Color 2 selection to your image's background. Now you can separate your image from its background color.
Click the Select menu on the toolbar. This option is near the top-left corner. It will open a drop-down menu.
Click Transparent selection on the menu. This will enable the transparent selection option in all your selections, and put a checkmark next to it on the menu here.
Select Rectangular selection or Free-form selection. You can find these options on the Select menu.- Depending on the area you want to select, you can use either of these tools in transparent selection mode.
Select the image you want to separate from the background. Hold down the left mouse button, and trace around the image.- You’ll see a black outline, but this will later disappear when you release the mouse.
Right-click the selection area. You will see a dashed rectangle around your selection.
Select Cut or Copy on the right-click menu. This will copy your transparent selection to your clipboard.- The traced image will be separated from its background.
Open a new picture in Paint. You can paste your copied image here.
Paste your copied image. Right-click the new picture, and select Paste. This will paste the cut/copied image to the new picture, with the previous background as transparent.Advertisement
Community Q&A
- QuestionCan I have 2 homescreens on my Note8?
Community AnswerYes. You can add 2 homescreens on Note8 by zooming out and clicking Add. - QuestionI wanted to make a transparent background, not a copy and pasted background.
Twinseers WCommunity AnswerIn Paint3D, you can use Magic Select. Then go to canvas and select Transparent Canvas. This will make the transparent background you're wanting. - QuestionWhat if I want to crop out multiple parts in one image?Twinseers WCommunity AnswerYou can use the select tool to select the parts individually and delete each of them.
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