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If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not download the service.įireAlpaca is a freeware that does not require payment of any license fee for both individual users and commercial use. Your download of this freeware and use of the service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these terms. If you use our service, you agree to all of the terms listed below. The alpha channel is enabled by default and like Paint, Photoshop also lets you inverte the selection.Please read these terms carefully before using FireAlpaca ("freeware", or "service") provided by PGN Inc. If you already own the app, you can use the selection or magic wand tool to select the item you want to keep and delete the background. The reason we don’t recommend using Photoshop is that it’s subscription-based and a bit complicated to learn. If you have Photoshop, you can use it to make a background transparent. GIMP also has a free-form selection tool that allows users to trace a fine/accurate path around an object and select it. In both cases, you have a ‘magic wand’ tool that allows users to make selections around an object more easily. GIMP is a bit more complicated to use since its UI isn’t the most intuitive but you essentially have to add an alpha layer to an image. It’s fairly easy to do since it supports layers.
Paint 3D is better than Paint but, if you have a little time you can learn how to make a background transparent with or with GIMP. In a pinch, they’re reasonably good apps to use.
Paint and Paint 3D comes installed out-of-the-box on Windows 10. When it’s saving, make sure you save it as an image and in the PNG format. The object will be pasted on a transparent background. Once the option has been enabled, you can paste the copied selection from the previous file into the new one.
Go to the Canvas tab again, and turn on the transparent canvas option. Once your object has been selected, click the copy button. If it’s not accurate, repeat the selection process but do not uncheck the ‘Autofill background’ option. Uncheck it, and see how accurate the selection is. You can choose to accept or reject this selection.Īnother option to play with here is the ‘Autofill background’ option. It will automatically remove content around the object that it thinks you don’t want to include. Instead, it has a tool called ‘Magic select’. Paint 3D doesn’t have a free-form selection tool. In this panel turn on the ‘Transparent canvas’ switch.Ĭlick the ‘Select’ tool and create an outline around the object that you want to include in the image. At the top, you’re going to see a bunch of controls. How to make an image transparent in Paint 3D It doesn’t support the alpha channel so you can’t get the same transparent background you could if you were to use or you can use Paint 3D. The background is going to be white and that’s really how Paint handles transparency. The background will be removed leaving only the selected object on the canvas. Once you’ve made the selection, open the Select dropdown again, and select the ‘Invert Selection’ option. Everything outside the selection will be removed. Use one of the tools and select only the part that you’d like to include in the image. The Free-form tool doesn’t confine you to a specific shape and makes for a more accurate selection around an object. The rectangle selection tool only lets you outline/select items in a rectangle. The trick is to know what suits your image and how skilled you are with selecting/outlining an object with a mouse or trackpad, or whatever device you have. You can choose either one of these tools and they will do the job. You will see two selection options Rectangular selection, and Free-form selection. You will see a ‘Select’ button on the toolbar. Open in Paint the image that you want to make a transparent background. How to make a picture transparent in the Paint app We’re going to show you how you can make a background transparent in both apps.
On Windows 10, you have the Paint app which has been around since Windows 98, and there is Paint 3D which is a new app added in Windows 10 for creating 3D projects.