Mike, you can very easily and quickly do this yourself. In PS, select the Magic Wand tool, uncheck "Contiguous" in the Options Bar, and click on the white background. That should select all the white pixels. If not, play with the Tolerance value and try again. Tap the Delete or Backspace key to erase the white areas to transparent. Press Ctrl-H to hide the marching ants so you can inspect the result. If needed, fine-tune the selection by clicking Select>Modify, then Expand, Contract, or Smooth. If your image has a white background layer below it, uncheck its "eye" in the Layers palette or just delete the layer and save the file.
The problem with the image you have hosted is the smudged edges that are the result of over compression with JPEG. This introduces blotchy grayness where the black and white abut each other.
Wanna see how badly?
ALT + Double-click on the Background to promote it to "Layer 0".
Create a new layer underneath Layer 0 and fill it with a medium-dark color, say a dark brick color, for example.
With Layer 0 highlighted in the Layers Palette, Click on the "Circle " icon at the bottom, and choose "Blending options…"
When the dialogue window opens, look toward the bottom. In the "Blend If…" panel, grab the right-side split triangle widget in the top "This layer:" scale.
Very slowly, drag that widget toward the left.
See all the junky stuff around the black objects?
That’s showing you the white areas that aren’t completely white. That’s the schmutz that results from heavy JPEG compression.
Reply back after you have done those things. I have more stuff for you to try.
you see u didn’t make this picture my friend did it but the problem is that i dont have photoshop.
mean i didn’t make this picture
Well, then I guess you’re SOL, eh?
Which begs the question: Why aren’t you asking your friend to do this, or why isn’t s/he asking the questions here?
Doesn’t seem too practical for us to instruct you, when you can’t do anything we might suggest, now does it?
I suggest your friend might want to recreate the object using vectors, anyway. It”ll be much cleaner that way.
I just did…took me about 5 minutes.
asked him he is way to busy and dosent know how his dad owns Arby’s and he works their full time. Its not like i don’t want to do it i mean this is really important for me. It only took you five minutes i would really appreciate it Phos if you can send it to me
So, what are you saying, the dude works 24 hours a day? Cut me a break.
By the file name "eyesai.jpg" it appears he may have done this in Illustrator originally.
Have him export from Illustrator as a transparent PNG.
Should take all of 1 minute, tops.
I’m here to teach, not to do work for free.
oh no you see he sent it to me at .psd format. But i had to convert it because i wanted to edit it and i don’t have photoshop so i converted it to .jpg using Ifranview also because flash doesn’t work with .psd
Let me clue you up, then.
I don’t use IrfanView because I use Macs.
But, 2 minutes on the IrfanView site tells me that it will allow you to use Photoshop-compatible filters. The first link I pointed you toward has a free plugin that will do what you need.
You could have discovered that just as easily yourself.
Can you take it from there?
I hope so.
ok sorry don’t get mad at me. I have illustrator and i opened up the file. Then i exported it to a .png and made sure i had it on the option transparency but when i import it into flash it still shows the white background but it is light its like grayish now. I don’t know what to do i cant take out the background
