help with paint net

[Jenove]

can someone link me to a tutorial or tell me how to make background transparent for equip screen for char. Ty pPLZ

[sloter]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pa ... tnG=Search

[Ouchy]

I have used Paint.Net for a while, so you can PM me with any questions, but also head over to the Official Paint.Net Forums: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/

 

 

 

And are you doing this for the Tip.Pic? I wrote a guide on how to do it in it, and it's on the front page.

[darkblade986]

Are you looking to make it so that all there is is your character standing there, or make it so you see the Runescape game behind the equip screen? I can help you with the first no problem. The second isn't possible to do since when you take a screen shot, you get an image of what you can see, not all the different layers, so you'd have to take two shots which would be far more complex.

 

 

 

 

 

If you're only interested in the character and don't care about the background, what I would recommend first is to use the Rectangle Select tool (left column, top object) and put a rectangle around your character. After that, do Image -> Crop to Selection. That should reduce the size of your image significantly and make this next step easier.

 

 

 

What you're going to want to do then is use the Magic Wand tool (left column, 4th item down; to the left of 'hand' icon) and select all the background that is around your character (you could also use it to select your character yourself, but I find the background easier). If you're noticing that when you select stuff in the background it also selects parts of your character, Undo (Edit -> Undo or Ctrl+Z) and reduce the Tolerance of the wand by lowering the percentage located at the top. Once you have all the background selected (or at least enough that none of it is touching your character), delete it. You can use the Eraser tool (right column, center object) to clean up anything that didn't get erased. Alternatively, you could just use the Eraser tool on its own to erase away the background.

 

 

 

This may be a slightly tricky step, but this will help make the image smaller: Select the Magic Wand again. To the left of the Tolerance slider is a label that reads "Flood Mode:" and should have a lightning bolt around it. Click that bolt so that it turns into a globe. Also, turn the Tolerance on the Magic Wand to 0%. Click on one of the blank areas (the white and gray checkered areas) and that should select it everywhere in the image. Go to Edit -> Invert Selection (or press Ctrl+I) and that should change the selected area to your character. Do Image -> Crop to Selection and if you've done everything right, you should be left with an image of your character with the borders right on the edge of it and the background transparent. If it didn't snap right to the edges, you probably missed a pixel when cleaning away the background, so go back, check for rogue pixels, erase them and then repeat this step again.

[Sam]

You question would be better answered on the PDN forums, which Ouchy_S linked to.