How do I make this image transparent?

[PaulWilliamson]

I know, easiest way is to make sure I bought a transparent image but I forgot to check that 🙂

I followed a couple videos and document but they didn't work.  I do not think I can use the selection brush or color selection tool with this image.  I would like the background to be transparent so I can place it over a colored background.

Let me know if you have any ideas!  If I was successful with the image of the four trees I supposed I could just crop out each tree but maybe it would be easier to use one tree at a time.

Thank you,

paulw

 

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[NotMyFault]

There is one complexity which makes any automatic or easy selection impossible:

The image contains pure white leaves on pure white background. No way to distinguish them based on colors.

One method (using Photo) is to

1. erase white paper, https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Filters/filter_eraseWhitePaper.html
2. correct alpha channel by procedural texture filter with A=sign(A-a), input a set slightly below 0
3. redraw the white leaves with white brush on pixel layer below

 

Maybe you find a kind of template for the white leaves, worst case all are individually shaped.

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by NotMyFault
Removed image to avoid copyright issues

[PaulWilliamson]

I thought about the white leaves after posting!

What do you mean by erase white paper?  In AD or AP?

Thanks!

-paulw

[PaulWilliamson]

I found something on-line which did it, at least good enough for my needs: https://onlineimagetools.com/create-transparent-image

I did not mess with any of the settings, stayed with the defaults.

Thanks! From now on I will only look for transparent png files!  I was successful using Gimp a while back but it was still tedious.

I suppose people start off by creating a transparent document.

-paulw

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[telemax]

[Alfred]

39 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

1. redraw the white leaves with white brush on pixel layer below

There are quite a few (easily missed!) white flowers like these:

[NotMyFault]

 

 

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

There are quite a few (easily missed!) white flowers like these:

Sure, it was only a tutorial how to do the work, not the finished work.

 

Hi @telemax , your method is another great way giving similar result to Erase White Paper, but with more manual control 👍

but: still needs correction of the partial alpha on brighter colors.

Otherwise you will experience a drastic color shift if you put a primary color fill layer behind (e.g. blue)

[PaulWilliamson]

LunaPic did a decent job too.  Amazing  for an on-line tool!

[PaulWilliamson]

Wow!  Amazing stuff in such a short amount of time!  Thank you all!  I learned a lot!

-paulw

[Wosven]

Sorry to be a killjoy, but isn't this copyrighted materials?

https://fr.123rf.com/photo_132090086_quatre-saisons-printemps-été-automne-hiver-arbre-d-art-magnifique-pour-votre-conception.html?vti=ngjz09p7aymz0gggtv-1-10

https://www.tenstickers.fr/stickers/sticker-arbre-printemps-605

[PaulWilliamson]

55 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Sorry to be a killjoy, but isn't this copyrighted materials?

https://fr.123rf.com/photo_132090086_quatre-saisons-printemps-été-automne-hiver-arbre-d-art-magnifique-pour-votre-conception.html?vti=ngjz09p7aymz0gggtv-1-10

https://www.tenstickers.fr/stickers/sticker-arbre-printemps-605

I bought it from Creative Market yesterday.  Commercial license.

Four seasons - spring, summer | Pre-Designed Vector Graphics ~ Creative Market

Thanks for checking!

-paulw

[PaulWilliamson]

Are only self-made designs allowed to be posted here? 

I didn't occur to me that the image could be used by others.

 

-pw

[Alfred]

36 minutes ago, PaulWilliamson said:

I bought it from Creative Market yesterday.  Commercial license.

Four seasons - spring, summer | Pre-Designed Vector Graphics ~ Creative Market

In addition to the JPEG there’s a layered EPS version. Doesn’t that give you the transparent background you’re looking for?

[Wosven]

13 hours ago, PaulWilliamson said:

re only self-made designs allowed to be posted here? 

I didn't occur to me that the image could be used by others.

But it can be.

And the one living by selling this design will have less sales.

Part of the job when doing layout or similar creation, is to check images send to you were bought and not just googled. Or you simply buy them and add them to the invoiced. Photographers and illustrators have a hard time with stolen work, especially since Google and with sites offering free contents: some forget or never understood that not everything is free. That's the same problem as people asking you to work for free because it'll look great on your resumé/portfolio!

[NotMyFault]

7 hours ago, PaulWilliamson said:

Are only self-made designs allowed to be posted here? 

I didn't occur to me that the image could be used by others.

 

-pw

Its more about the license from the website/ market where you bought it.

It explicitly forbid make the file available for download in any place.

I edited my older post to remove large screenshots as precautionary measure.

Edited September 9, 2021 by NotMyFault

[Patrick Connor]

@PaulWilliamson

I have no doubt you posted the images here in good faith, but I have removed them now the permission issue has come to light. It seems you have learned many of the appropriate/available Affinity techniques now. I would also ask those who downloaded them to show you some techniques would also delete them now.

[telemax]

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

I would also ask those who downloaded them to show you some techniques would also delete them now.

Deleted

[IanSG]

Sorry to rat-hole this topic but I found this in the Creative Market licence terms:- "Can not be used:

• Website or app use
• As-is, must be modified from original"

I could understand not modifying the image but why is it the other way round?

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, IanSG said:

Sorry to rat-hole this topic but I found this in the Creative Market licence terms:- "Can not be used:

• Website or app use
• As-is, must be modified from original"

I could understand not modifying the image but why is it the other way round?

There are several sets of terms that apply to different uses. Where did you find that set?

[NotMyFault]

6 minutes ago, IanSG said:

Sorry to rat-hole this topic but I found this in the Creative Market licence terms:- "Can not be used:

• Website or app use
• As-is, must be modified from original"

I could understand not modifying the image but why is it the other way round?

The seller wants to avoid that the original image gets publicly available on other websites, and becoming out of his control which license gets applied. Once you can download an original image e.g. in user forum sites, is practically lost for earning money, as the relation to the license gets lost (as we see in the example of this thread).

[IanSG]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

There are several sets of terms that apply to different uses. Where did you find that set?

Select "Commercial" under Licence Type on this page and then "More options".

[IanSG]

6 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

The seller wants to avoid that the original image gets publicly available on other websites, and becoming out of his control which license gets applied. Once you can download an original image e.g. in user forum sites, is practically lost for earning money, as the relation to the license gets lost (as we see in the example of this thread).

Ok, but use on a website is already prohibited by the first bullet point.  As I (miss)understand it the published image can't be copyable (for obvious reasons) and must be modified (at which point I lose the plot).

[Old Bruce]

34 minutes ago, IanSG said:

I could understand not modifying the image but why is it the other way round?

You make an image and sell it to me and others for 10 bucks. I start selling that image for 5 bucks. How many more copies are you going to sell?

 

[IanSG]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

You make an image and sell it to me and others for 10 bucks. I start selling that image for 5 bucks. How many more copies are you going to sell?

I think you might need to let the lawyers have a look at your business model 😀

[walt.farrell]

46 minutes ago, IanSG said:

Select "Commercial" under Licence Type on this page and then "More options".

Thanks. If you want to use it "as-is", or where it forms the primary part of the item you're selling, you need the "Extended Commercial" license, not the "Commercial" license. For that image, Extended is $100, where Commercial is only $10.