Turning logos with white backgrounds into transparent .png

[Florida Tiger]

Hey guys, I've been playing OOTP for a long time but haven't posted in awhile. I love a lot of the stuff you guys post here and use a lot of the logos that you've created, in addition to creating some of my own. Incidentally, I only have Paint, so a lot of the logos I've created for my game have an annoying white background. Is there anyone out there that would volunteer to help convert some of these logos into transparent .png files? I'd appreciate it.

An example is included here:

[Florida Tiger]

Basically, I am trying to get rid of the white background, which shows up like this example:

[Thundercrack]

Thats a nice logo. I have paint too. Just use the magic wand to select the background, then edit-cut.

[Florida Tiger]

I guess I am not sure what the Magic Wand is. This is what I see:

[Bigrod]

Pretty sure he's talking abut a diff. program. Can't do that with MS paint that I know of. Do yourself a favor and get paint.net. It's free and easy to learn (no bloatware or any other crap). You'd use the magic wand touch the white and hit shift+del or the usual crtl+x and poof your white is gone.
Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

[snepp]

Another vote for paint.net here.

[Florida Tiger]

Right on. Thanks for the help, guys!

[Elysian Fields]

Using paint.net how would you add a drop shadow? Is this even possible?

[Sadiq]

To add a drop shadow on paint.net, you will need to add an add-on.

Here is a link http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php...ed-2010-10-26/

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by snepp

Another vote for paint.net here.

Yet another one here.

[eddyvegasgames]

I've never used paint.net, but Gimp (another absolutely free program) can do it:

Open your logo in gimp.

First you need to add an alpha channel, this adds the eventual transparency. to do that:

To your right, you will see the Layers window, and your picture will be the only layer. Right click on it, and select "Add Alpha Channel". Nothing will change, but you can now get rid of the white. Grab the magic wand, and click on the white spot, then hit Delete. No more white. Repeat as needed. When you are ready to save, you click File > Export. Hope this helps.

Gimp: GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

-Eddy

[Thundercrack]

Originally Posted by Bigrod

Pretty sure he's talking abut a diff. program. Can't do that with MS paint that I know of. Do yourself a favor and get paint.net. It's free and easy to learn (no bloatware or any other crap). You'd use the magic wand touch the white and hit shift+del or the usual crtl+x and poof your white is gone.
Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

He's right, thought you were referring to paint.net. As others have said, great program. Do you have more logos you would be willing to share, i really like that Suns one - thanks

[The Wolf]

I used to be a GIMP user, and it's a fine program, but paint.net does almost everything I ever need to do and I find it to be a lot easier to use.

[Elysian Fields]

When you delete the background, if its black lets say, it leaves a little bit of black along the outline. How do you go about cleaning that up with gimp or paint.net?

[Bigrod]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

I used to be a GIMP user, and it's a fine program, but paint.net does almost everything I ever need to do and I find it to be a lot easier to use.

Same here Wolf. Much easier.

[Bigrod]

Originally Posted by Elysian Fields

When you delete the background, if its black lets say, it leaves a little bit of black along the outline. How do you go about cleaning that up with gimp or paint.net?

I use the eraser and make sure anti aliasing is On. It's on by default. That setting is the squiggly line next to the fill dropdown on the menu. Helps to use a brush size 10 or larger as you'll get better results with the anti aliasing. Also when using the magic wand, you can adjust it's tolerance. That is on the top menu as well. It's default to 50%, so you have to play with it to get the results you want. Try it and you can always use crtl+z to undo your changes when you don't like the results.
Another way of doing it is if it's just a real small amount of color left is to Click the Effects button on top menu and hover your cursor over Object and click feather. That will blend and smooth those outside edges. Sometimes it's to much though and you can't adjust it unless you get the plug-in. Although I think it works best for my real player pics it sometimes works well for other things as well.

[Bigrod]

Originally Posted by Elysian Fields

Using paint.net how would you add a drop shadow? Is this even possible?

Add a second layer (first button on the bottom of the Layers window) and move it to the bottom (down arrow button). On that layer, click the properties button (last button on the bottom right of the Layers window) and reduce the Opacity/transparancy level to the desired amount. Hint: Almost all buttons/selections have tool tips if you hover your mouse over them.
Once you got things the way you want, Click the top layer and click the fourth button on the bottom to merge the layers together.