How to Give a Picture a Transparent Background (A Technology Tuesday Post!)

How annoying is it when you're designing a worksheet or a poster and the background of the image gets in the way?  Based on the poll in my sidebar, most people wanted to learn how to get rid of that pesky background and make it totally transparent!  And today... I'm going to teach to how to do it, for free!



First things first, download Gimpshop so you can practice along with the following directions!  Gimpshop is like photoshop, but for free!  And... it works on Macs and PCs!

If Gimpshop doesn't install properly on your computer, download Gimp.  It's literally the exact same program, but Gimpshop looks more like Photoshop when it's open.  Either will work!

I kept the same format as last week with the step by step directions with images... let me know how you like the format!





A common issue that I run into is images that are light/white in color... so here's a troubleshooting tip!  If you run into any other problems doing this, leave me a comment and I'll walk you through how to fix them!


You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!
Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

Thank you for visiting technology Tuesday!  Speaking of technology... I made three banners for the contest going on over at TPT.  If you like them, please vote on them (be sure to vote on all three!).  All you have to do is click the picture below and click "Like!" on facebook!  It'll take five seconds of your time and I'd really appreciate it!




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