Expert: LizaL - 3/24/2005

Question
Hi
HOW R U
I m using the allexperts.com from a long time but the I M ASKING U FIRST TIME A QUESTION OF ADOBE GRAPHICS FIELD.
I M USING THE ADOBE PHOTO SHOP VERSION 7 , I M KNOW ENOUGH ABT IT BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM THAT
""" I WANA TO GET A TRANSPARENT PICS, U CAN UNDERSTAND IT AS I NEED THE JUST TEXT AND WANA KNOW BACKGROUND AS A WHITE PAGE OCCURS EACH TIME AS I SAVE JUST TEXT WHICH WAS EVALUATED FROM THE PIC(TEXT SAVED AS PIC AS IN URDU),I HAVE TO USE IT IN THE ULEAD PHOTO STUDIO AS WHEN THE MOVIE RUNS THE text also appears in front of movie.
after all MY QUESTION IS THAT I WANA TO ASK THAT HO CAN I SAVE A TEXT OR SOME PORTION(FROM A PIC SO THAT THERE IS NO BACKGROUND EVEN WHITE PAGE.
PLZ REPLY ME
I HAVE VERY EMERGENCY FOR SOME PROJECT
MAY ALLAH BLESS US  

Answer
Hi Hafeez,

In your layers palette, make sure you don't have a background layer active.

Look at this:
http://little-works.com/all_experts/text.mov

When you create a new Photoshop document, its background will be the same color as the background swatch in your tool palette. In this case, mine was white.

To turn it off, simply click on the "eye" icon to the left of the layer name, or just delete the background layer altogether, since it sounds like you don't need it anyway.

If you need to, trim the file using the Trim command (found under the Image pulldown menu) to get rid of any extra space around the text before you export it to your other program.

Hope this helps!

Lisa