Transparent flood fill....

[4EverMaAT]

I would like to know how I can change the flood fill color to transparent or no color, so that I can customize which parts of my photograph I want to make not visible. Thank you.

[Radim]

I am not aware any possiblity of that.

If you have a photo, make sure you are on 16 milions colors, than make some selection, then Ctrl+C to copy, and finaly Ctrl+Shift+C to put in new image with TRANSPARENT background. Or Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection and DEL key.

[Joelle]

I would like to know how I can change the flood fill color to transparent or no color, so that I can customize which parts of my photograph I want to make not visible. Thank you.

I don't understand what you are trying to do, but you can lower the Opacity of the Flood Fill Tool on the toolbar, there is a box marked Opacity
This will give you a transparent fill.

My preferred option is to add a new Raster Layer and fill that instead, then you can lower the Opacity of the Layer as needed.

Joëlle

[LeviFiction]

If you're trying to use the flood fill to make areas transparent you can't do that. Luckily, the magic wand tool has many options similar to the Flood Fill tool so you can use it the same way to select the area you want transparent. You can then, as Radim suggested, hit the Delete key to get rid of those portions.

Otherwise if you're looking for something like Joelle mentioned then do what Joelle suggested.

[teknisyan]

Hello 4EverMaAT,

Looks like Levi beat me to it by 3 minutes!

Rather than using the floodfill, you can use the SELECTION TOOL and then just delete the part that you want to turn into transparent or use the eraser tool .

[Babble]

Another approach is to duplicat the original picture the add a new mask layer (show all) by right clicking on the dup layer and selecting Add New Mask. You can then paint the mask (looks like a white layer) black to block any part of the picture or paint it white to bring it back again. This is non destructive. Turn off the original layer so you can see the parts being blocked. Mask transparency can be adjusted as well or you can adjust the opacity of the brush when painting our an area.

[4EverMaAT]

I would like to know how I can change the flood fill color to transparent or no color, so that I can customize which parts of my photograph I want to make not visible. Thank you.

I don't understand what you are trying to do, but you can lower the Opacity of the Flood Fill Tool on the toolbar, there is a box marked Opacity
This will give you a transparent fill.

My preferred option is to add a new Raster Layer and fill that instead, then you can lower the Opacity of the Layer as needed.

Joëlle

How were you able to get this to be transparent fill? I lowered the opacity to varying degrees, including down to 1 and I had no luck.

When i said transparent fill, it means that it fills the section of the photo with no color or transparent color (NOT WHITE). I have a program called snagit and it does this by just selecting "none" as the color. then just fill away. Then when I take this image and want to add it over another image, the transparent parts are see-thru and only what is not transparent will cover the image.

What others have suggested still requires that I go with fine detail and attempt to erase within the area of the photo I want to use. When you are dealing with emblems or multiple sections of detail, this can be difficult to doThe same thing would be accomplished with a "fill erase" tool.

The flood fill or color changer with "transparent" or "none" as the color would accomplish this quickly. I will attempt the magic wand thing, but it's much easier to use the flood fill.

I may have to import into snag-it and then put it back into PSP? I hope PSP can do what I want.

[LeviFiction]

The biggest problem is how the two programs see transparency and perform their fills.

For example, if I go into the gradient editor I can make a gradient that is completely transparent. I can even open up a blank image and try using it as a pattern (patterns can use current selections and open images as patterns) to fill with and it's the same result. If I try to fill with this on an image, nothing happens. Why? Because it's not applying the "transparent" attribute to the current colors it's only applying a blend of the two colors, transparent areas are ignored because they are...well...transparent. So add, subtract, multiply, divide, the color to that of a transparent color and you get.......nothing. No change. It's because of this fundamental difference the idea would not work.

Now doing either of the above using the Color Changer tool results in a black color. Probably because a transparent color is in fact, black. But the Color Changer tool really isn't the best for this sort of thing.

So if you continue want to do this in PSP the Magic Wand, in general, works the same way the Flood Fill tool does for selecting pixels to "Fill." So it's no harder to use than the Flood Fill tool would have been. From there, provided it's an actual Raster layer and not a Background layer, just hit the Delete key and away you go. You can of course add SnagIt to your pipeline if you feel it's necessary but yeah this is how you get rid of a complete color in PSP.

[4EverMaAT]

The workaround was to just edit the picture in snag it, export to png format, and drag it into PSP. It worked for what I needed to do.

I have a new problem of not being able to "pin" certain layers so that they do not move. I will post separate thread.