From product photography to web design, sometimes an image is just better without the background. But attempting to tackle the task without the right tools can make even the most skilled photographers ...

The Gimp provides the Rectangle, Ellipse and Lasso selection tools to help you cut out specific parts of a photo or illustration to keep, eliminate or edit. In addition, if you add an Alpha channel to ...

Illustrator is used for several tasks that would include removing backgrounds. Learning how to make a white background transparent in Illustrator is a basic and very important task. There are cases ...

Background removal is an elusive business. It’s hard to find tools that offer background removal, let alone good ones, and it’s much harder to find any that offer it as a free feature. There are a ...

Paint is one of the most popular and widely used standard Windows programs. This classic drawing program has some neat new features, including the possibility make a transparent background. In the ...

I occasionally need to convert the background color of a particular image to be transparent so that the image looks better on medium with backgrounds of colors other than the image’s original ...

Any Windows executable programs that display icons must use the ICO format for those icons. Icons can have transparent areas, which allows you to create icons with rounded corners or circular outlines ...