If you find yourself having trouble with leftover pixels around the outline of your image, go into the Fill style and set your Tolerance to a higher level sometimes, a custom level will work best because if you set the Tolerance too high, it might start removing pixels that you wanted to keep. It is also useful for pasting images on top of other images. Now your image has a transparent background! From here, you can add shadows, colors, or other effects. The extra multi-shade white pixels around the outline of the image should also be turned transparent based on what you set the Tolerance to. Use the fill tool to recolor your background area to transparent.

From the dropdown menu, select Transparent.Ĭlick the Fill drop-menu again this time select Tolerance > and then 5% or 10%. Now that the Fill tool is select under the Styles category, click the Fill drop-down list. In other programs, it is sometimes known as the Paint Bucket tool. There are plenty of ways to do that, but the easiest is probably to capture it as a screenshot. Step 1 – Capture your screenshot and select the Fill toolĪlright, the first order of business is to load your image into the Snagit Editor. Below we’ll show you how to do something similar to Photoshops Magic Wand tool to create transparencies.

but in Snagits SnagIt Editor this time around.What you see, will. And although we’ve had our issues with Snagit transparency in the past, it is also a beneficial feature. This is by request, and recent finding, a tutorial on how to remove the background colors. Nearly every image you see here on groovyPost has been processed using TechSmith’s photo capturing and editing tool.

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