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Removing White Backgrounds Using Adobe Fireworks

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Removing White Backgrounds Using Adobe Fireworks . WHAT TO DO?. Suppose we have this great picture of an Ant that we found in Google images, and saved into our own folder as a .jpg file. We now want to use this fabulous looking ant in an animation project. . WE HAVE A PROBLEM. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Removing White Backgrounds Using Adobe Fireworks

Removing White Backgrounds Using Adobe Fireworks

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WHAT TO DO?

• Suppose we have this great picture of an Ant that we found in Google images, and saved into our own folder as a .jpg file. We now want to use this fabulous looking ant in an animation project.

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WE HAVE A PROBLEM

• Our Ant has a white background surrounding him. We want to remove this white background so that we only have our ant present.

• We can do this using Adobe CS3 Fireworks.

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HOW TO REMOVE THE WHITE BACKGROUND

• Open the actual ant original start .jpg file

• We now need to set up Fireworks, so that it is running with a Transparent background.

• To change Fireworks to have a transparent (or see through clear) Canvas, we have to go to the top of the screen and do Modify > Canvas > Canvas Color

• Once you have done this you MUST make sure that you have the TRANSPARENT selected

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HOW TO REMOVE THE WHITE BACKGROUND

• We now need to use the “magic wand” tool, to select all of the white background and clear it away.

• Now move the mouse over onto the white area, and the magic wand symbol should appear. Click the left mouse button and flashing dashed lines should appear.

• Now at the top of the screen, click on Edit > Clear

• We now remove the dashed lines selection by either pressing the Esc key on our keyboard, or by going Select > Deselect

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HOW TO SAVE THE FILE• File > Save As and save the Ant

as a .PNG Fireworks file, (or we can also use a .GIF file).

• We must use either of these two file types, for our Ant to keep his transparent background.

• If we resave him as a .jpg file, we will have the white background come back again. This is because .jpg images are not able to ever have clear backgrounds.