I need to know how to make the background transparent in an image while using Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.  I need it so that you can only see the text and not a backgruond.  So like if you go to a website with lets say a black backgruond, your picture does not have a white background on it making it look less professional.
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loaded question,colors represent information about an image that is normally invisible such as transparency this is really  advanced blending. you have to use the fill opacity option ...the lower the opacity the more you will get all the way through. set the knockout to shallow and you get through one layer .. set it to deep and create a hole all the way through to the background.
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If there are two solid colors, another quick way is to use the "magic eraser" tool. Just left-click on the white area and that should take, most, if not all, of that white background out..........if not.......just continue to left-click in the remaining white areas until all of the white background is gone. This tool works best when there are two distinctly solid colors. :)\n\nIf this is a circle you created, first flatten the image via layer. Go to 'layer', then choose 'flatten', now use the "magic eraser" tool to eliminate the background. :)
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Right click on the slide - select change background - and select the image you want as a background (picture) or colors or patterns or even gradients.  If you change the "background" in master and choose a different design in "slide design" then you will be selecting that background for the entire show.\n\nbelow is from the help menu on powerpoint:\nIf you want to apply the change to selected slides only, select the slides in normal view. Otherwise, the change applies to all slides that follow the design template (design template: A file that contains the styles in a presentation, including the type and size of bullets and fonts; placeholder sizes and positions; background design and fill color schemes; and a slide master and optional title master.) of the currently selected slide.\n\nOn the Format menu, click Background.\n\nUnder Background fill, click the arrow below the image, and then do one of the following: \nSelect a color from the color scheme\n\nClick one of the eight colors displayed. \nSelect a color outside the color scheme\n\nClick More Colors. \nClick the color you want on the Standard tab, or click the Custom tab to mix your own color, and then click OK. \nSelect a fill effect or picture\n\nClick Fill Effects, and then do one of the following: \nTo use shading, click the Gradient tab, click a type under Colors, click a shading style, and then click OK. \nTo use a texture, click the Texture tab, click the texture you want or click Other Texture to select a file and insert it, then click OK. \nTo use a pattern, click the Pattern tab, select the pattern you want, select foreground and background colors, then click OK. \nTo use a picture, click the Picture tab, click Select Picture to find the picture file you want, click Insert, and then click OK. \nUse the background fill from the slide master\n\nClick Automatic. \nDo one of the following: \nIf you want to apply the background to selected slides, click Apply. \nIf you want to apply the background to all slides, click Apply to All. \n\nGood luck!
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If you have Microsoft Office, it is very simple.  Choose the picture that you want, open one of the programs (Word) and put your picture on the page.  Now go to the top and click on "View"  then "toolbar".  Now choose the "Picture" toolbar.  You will see a new toolbar.  Put your curser over each tool until it reads "transparent".  This is the tool that you will need.  Once chosen, put the wand on the part of the picture that you want transparent.  The program will do it for you.  I hope that this helps
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create a new doc in photoshop. Now open up the image you want to blend and copy and paste them into your new doc. This should put them on their own layer. Select the 'retangular selection' tool (the upper left most icon in your toolbar) and change the 'feather' property (in your main toolbar) to something like 20px. Now you can select a portion of the top most image and click your 'delete' key'. this will feather out the deleted area and you can see it blend in with the image below it. it will probably take some playing around but hopefull this helps?
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Here are some help sites for it... it looks like simple html to me... the first site gives a lot of info on specifically, backgrounds.\n\nhttp://www.neopianlights.com/content.php?page=guides/Backgrounds.htm\nhttp://www.soup-faerie.com/
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The answer as mentioned before is to import the gif in the PNG format instead.  PNGs preserve transparency better in flash.\n\nIn photoshop, open your image and click "Save for Web" on the File menu.  Then in the options box on the righthand side, choose "PNG-24" from the file menu.  Please note, that you must choose "PNG-24" and NOT "PNG-8"....don't worry about the file size at the moment.  Make sure the transparency is turned on.\n\nSave it off and import it into flash.  When you drag it onto the stage you will see that the transparency is as it should be.  Now, to lower the file size, right hand click the image and choose "properties".  Uncheck the "Use Imported JPEG Data" box and play with the quality value until the image is lower in size without a major loss in quality - usually about 60-80 should do it.\n\nClick ok and then compile it to show your finished work!\n\nEnjoy!
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In your CSS add something like this:\n\na img {border: 1px solid #000000;}\na:hover img, a:visited:hover img {border: 1px solid #FF0066;}\n\nthat will make a one pixel black border around each image that's in a link, and when someone mouses over it, the border will change to red.  You'll want to change the colors I picked because that might be really ugly.
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You basically want to have an image of your choice and lay text of your choice over it, correct?  \n\nIf so, you DON'T necessarily need Photoshop (from your prior question), but you'll certainly need some kind of graphic software (like Paint Shop Pro) to set it up!
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Lesson 2.4: Changing the Background\n\nTwo Ways to Change\n\nThere are two ways you can change the background on your page. You can either change the color or put a picture in the background, which are analogous to painting the background of your webpage or wallpapering it. \n\nFirst Open Up Page Properties\n\nYou should first open up Page Properties. To access the Page Properties dialog box, go to Modify > Page Properties.\n\n\n\nThe resulting dialog box is where you can change either the background color or the background image of your page.\n\n\n\nPainting Your Background\n\nTo change the color of your background, simply click and hold on the little black arrow on the box labeled "Background" and then choose the color that you want for your background. Try to keep to light colors for dark fonts and dark colors for light fonts to maximize readability. \n\nHere are some samples of pages with colored backgrounds:\nNote: These sample pages will open up in a window.\n\n• Example of a page with a dark and light font on a light background\n• Example of a page with a light and dark font on a dark background\n• Example of a bad page with horrible color choice and contrast\n• Example of a page with colored tables\n\nWallpapering Your Background\n\nTo use an image as the background of your page, first make sure that the image is copied into your web folder. Then click on the "Browse" button by the text box labeled "Background Image" and find the image in your folder. Try to keep the image simple for easier readability contrast, or, if you really, really want to use a complicated image, use a white table on top of it.\n\nHere are some examples of pages with backgrounds:\n\n• Example of a page with a simple light background with dark text\n• Example of a page with a textured dark backgrond with light text \n• Example of a page with a complicated background (note how difficult it is to read the text!) and then with a white table on top to make it much clearer
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O SNAP SON! thats a perfect question, because im in commerical art class right now dealing with adobe illustration and photoshop so you asked the right question lol. What i would do is use the lasso tool (polygonial in specific) and then trace the image NOT FULLY, because then the only part youll have to edit is the inside, instead of editing inside trace it and then go outside and make a rectangle (or whatever) around the background so that the image is outside traced and the background  section is selected, FIRST make sure the background layer is selected (if you have more then one layer) (layers appear to the right of the screen in the program) (select it by just clicking on the layer tab) and then once you have done that you would want to select what color you want the background to be from the color palette and then use the paintbrush tool  to feel in the background in replace of white. You will have to repeat the lasso maybe a few times because its not like just outlining the object itself your outlining the background, OR you can just make a diffrent color background (have to make a diffrent layer (youll see how to make a diffrent layer at the bottom of the layer box just scroll those icons down there)) and then paint the layer the color you want it to be but MAKE SURE that the layer isnt on the image layer then it will all turn that color becasue a new layer overlaps and old one. If the image comes with the white background you probably just want to go with the lasso direction. Alright..thats it, hope yo find it out, if you dont just click my name on here and find out my contact info. PEACE! O yeah and make sure u drag and drop the clipart into photoshop to use it lol.
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what? do you mean making the picture move or changing the color in the background?  If you want to change the background of a picture, depends what you are using.  If you are using paint, if you just made it, you could click the paint bucket and fill the background.  If you copied it or something like that, it's a bit more complicated.  You will have to cut around it so the background is completely white, then you fill it using the paint bucket.  You could say what you are using or what you are changing the color on the background of.
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Not only do you need to set the background of the document or layer that you're moving it to as transparent; you need to save it in a format that supports transparency.\nNeither bitmaps nor jaypegs will save a document with a transparent area; they'll fill it white. Giffs will save a transparent area but aren't great for photos.\nPrograms like Photoshop usually have a 'native' file format and it should support transparency so make sure you save your new image as that.
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Photoshop is a graphics application program. It is for creating, editing, and printing graphics files - primarily ones that have a representation of a digital photo in them. Hence, the title Photoshop.\n\nWhile a web page can contain graphics files - a web page is actually an HTML or XHTML file. These are text files what have a certain structure to them - kind of the way an outline you write has a certain structure to it. You can edit them with a text editor, if you know their format or read the specifications for them - or, have a special program for editing them like FrontPage, Mozilla, or something like that.\n\nYou can come close to doing what you said by creating an image in Photoshop, creating an HTML or XHTML file by some means, and including an IMG tag in it with ISMAP set in it and creating something called a client side image map. That can specify shapes like circles or polygons where a click will transfer the user to a certain web page. \nSource(s):\nhttp://www.w3.org/MarkUp/\nhttp://www.mozilla.org/editor/\nhttp://www.mozilla.org/releases/...
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If you want to change the colour of any part of the picture, one tool you can use is Selection Tool. Photoshop and PhotoImpact are some examples of image editing softwares.\n\nThe Selection Tool allows you to select any part of the photo. But in order to use it, you have to merge the image with the background. When you have selected part of an image, you can apply filters and monochrome effects. For example, if you want a person hair to be yellow, apply yellow monochrome effect. Then in order to enhance the colour, use the soft edge tool.\n\nAll the steps described above can be followed from Photoshop or PhotoImpact or any image editing softwares that are close to them.\n\nIf you want a friendly, quick-and-easy-to-edit and also the 60-day free trial version of image editing and design, try out Microsoft Digital Image at http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/default.mspx
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If you know something about HTML code, you can look at the code and extract the part for the background image. It's probably in a tab like IMG. I've redesigned stock layouts for many myspace users.  Enjoy!
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Insert the picture by going insert -> picture then either from file or clip art, depending where you're getting it.\n\nOnce you've lined the pic up and sized it etc, you may need to make it appear lighter (so it doesn't hide any of the text).  Do this by right clicking the picture and selecting "Format Picture".  Change colour to Washout to set a default lighter colour scheme, or adjust the image control settings to what you require.\n\nNow go to the Layout tab, and choose "behind text".\n\nCongratulations, now you can type over the picture, almost like magic.