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How To Remove White Background From Logos with Photoshop
Hey everyone. In this video, I wanted to show you how you could remove a background from a logo. So in this case, it's a white background, but it doesn't matter if it's a solid color background, I'm going to show you how to remove it in this video this is a JPEG, I just opened up of YouTube logo. So what I want to do is come over here and in the background layer, I just want to double click and I could name this layer, what I want to impress. That unlocks the layer. So I could now do the things I need to, to this layer to remove this background.
Now, there's a couple of ways to remove a background. If it's a solid color, one way is to come over here and click the magic wand tool or the selection tool. They kind of both works the same way magic wand tool seems to work a bit better. If I just click here is selects the white for me and then I could press delete on my keyboard and he deletes the white or whatever color this may be from the background.
See some of the white is still there. In fact, I wanted this white, but if you've seen these holes, there is a little bit of white here. I'm going to show you how to remove those. You just click, delete, click, delete, and click and delete. So now you remove the white background, so you can not press V and I could just grab this layer with the visa like that.
That's the selection tool, and I could just drop it on top of a different layer so I could bring it and drop a right on top of that layer right there. As you could see, it gives me a transparent background. Let me just close this and open that file. One more time, just to show you a better way. Again, if you just drag this on top of a different file, it's going to have that white background.
We don't want that. So before we do that, I'm going to press command Z here and press delete. Before we do that, we want to remove the white. So another way again, double click unlock the layer, and now we want to select this color range of white. So we come up here select a color range and we choose white and now if you just play with the fuzziness here, you could get a better handle on the selection. So the lower it is the less refined a selection in this case. I want it to be all the way to the maximum of 200 is very sharp edges here, and I'm going to press okay and now the selection even includes the things I had to select separately before.
So if I press delete. It deletes everything that's white, including even this play icon, I'm going to just command Z to undo. So if I want this play icon to remain white, all I got to do comes to quick selection hold the option or alt key, and then just go over this area at the selects, just this white part of the image and if I press delete, delete the rest again, I'm going to press V for the selection tool up here, and then I could drag this to my other Photoshop file and place it where I want to. Now, if you want to place this somewhere else, like on top of the video, what you need to do is come up to file and then go to export and then do a quick export.
As PNG PNG keeps the transparent background. If you save it as a JPEG, it does not equate to a background that is a solid color. Go ahead and save this as a PNG and then press save. I'll show you on the desktop, what that looks like. So this is the one with a white background. The one I opened up in Photoshop and is the one with a transparent background.
So if you press the space bar on a Mac here, it just has a transparent background and if you open it, you'll get a transparent look instead of a white background. I hope this video was helpful. Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for a lot more tutorials, just like this one and I hope to see you on the next video. Thanks for watching.