Thread: How do I remove the background from this image?

Any good?

That's beeyootiful.

grey? it's blue

Quote: Originally Posted by Vamos666 Any good? Thank you! Unfortunately my description was a bit vague - I want to keep all the dark bits as they are and cut off the big light grey/blue border, leaving a clean edge and a white background.

Quote: Originally Posted by Vamos666 Any good? Thank you! Unfortunately my description was a bit vague - I want to keep all the dark bits as they are and cut off the big light grey/blue border, leaving a clean edge and a white background.

What you want to do is use the magic wand to select the outside grey part, and then cut it. This is not hard but it isn't something you can do with Paint, though any actual graphics program will do it (including the GIMP, which is not actually difficult to learn in itself; it's the techniques that can be difficult and they're difficult whatever you use). e.g.

So is it hard to get the border straight? Why does it look so lumpy?

Because the border *is* lumpy, if you judge by colour; the grey part is all mottled grey and black, including the edges. If you want the border non-lumpy, you have to chop bits off it to make it straight. (You could just do that anyway without using the magic wand tbh.)

Ok...so is GIMP the one to try? I do have Adobe CS4 courtesy of Isohunt, but it's a bugger to install and I won't have enough disk space for a few days.

Use the pen tool not magic wand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNwTiCYuz_g