In Photoshop, there are many ways to get your work done, you can decide to have your image or design with its background intact, and you can decide otherwise. If the latter is your desire, you can get the all-white background and color away from your image in an easily and straightforwardly manner.
Below are easy to follow guidelines on how to remove all white from Photoshop and get your image and design ready to use in any way.
Steps to Removing All White in Photoshop
Step 1: Open your File to get your document
To start removing all white from your work and image, the first step is creating a clean canvas to get your work set on. But if you prefer, you can open up a file or image to work upon.
If you wish to create a new canvas and design your image first, head to your screen’s left-hand side and click on File, on the dropdown menu, click on New and commence work.
On the other hand, if you wish to open an already existing work or image, head to the left side of the screen, click on File, on the dropbox that pops up, click Open, or press Ctrl + O. From there, you’ll be directed to your main desktop, choose the file or image you desire. It will immediately appear on your Photoshop canvas.
Step 2: Select your image for the canvas
The image above is the one taken from the desktop. To provide a clear explanation of how to remove all white from an image, the image above of a red thumbprint with white background has been chosen.
This image simplifies the entire process as it contains a simple element, the thumbprint, and the white background is prominent.
Step 3: Unlocking your layer
The next step is to get the white off the image, but you need to unlock the layer background by naming it. Right on that background layer, you’ll notice a lock feature on it; once the layer is named, the layer becomes unlocked.
For that, click on your background layer, the layer where the white color background is on. For that, scroll to the lower right-hand side of the screen, proceed to the Layer box of the screen, double-click on the background layer, and a dialogue box will pop up.
On the dialogue box, you need to rename the layer; for this example, the name written is Layer O. You can always use any name you desire.
Step 4: The unlocked layer
Once you name the background layer, it unlocks, as seen above. Here, the lock feature on the layer is no longer present, and the layer’s name changed from Background to Layer 0.
Step 5: Change the Color range
For the next step, proceed to the top command ribbon on the screen and click Select. Then click on Color range to get a dialogue box.
Step 6: Color range changes
Once you click on the Color range, a dialogue box pops up for you as seen in the above image. There is “Select sample color” go ahead and click on white as the sample color. Afterward, change the fuzziness level to 90, click the selection, and then click ok.
Step 7:
In the image above, the selected commands’ result under the color range becomes prominent as the image shows all areas with the white color selected and highlighted.
Step 8: Deleting the white color background
Once the entire region where the white color exists is selected as in the image above, go ahead to hit the delete button on your keyboard to remove every trace of white in the image.
Step 9: Deselect the selection
Once all the above steps are carefully executed, your image as seen here is free of the white or white background. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the selection done earlier on the areas that contained the white color. An alternative to pressing Ctrl + D is to right-click on the canvas and pick deselect.
Once done, your image is white color free with its white background completely removed.
Conclusion
There is no way to create something without having a background, but there are times when that background is unnecessary or not needed, hence the possibility of removing all white in Photoshop. By following the given steps above, any graphic designer can easily get the white background off the image at any given time to make use of the image in any desired manner.
