How can I remove all white pixels?
simple_...@yahoo.com
black) picture imported into Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE. The magic wand
does not work because it removes contiguous pixels only. Is there any
way to remove all white pixels?
Scott W
There is a check box with the magic wand that turn on and off the
contiguous part of the operation.
Scott
(not quite so) Fat Sam
Yes, this is quite simple, bt the key isn't in the use of the magic wand as
you might expect.
First open your image in photoshop.
Now open the "select" menu and choose the "colour range" option.
Now when the colour range window opens, click on a white area in your image,
and you'll see a small scale monochrome thumbnail preview giving you an idea
of the selection.
Click okay, and you'll find that in your image, all the white pixels in your
image have now been selected.
Hope that helps.
simple_...@yahoo.com
> Now open the "select" menu and choose the "colour range" option.
Scott W <biph...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> There is a check box with the magic wand that turn on and off the
> contiguous part of the operation.
>
> Scott
These options do not exist in my version of the Photoshop. (5.0 LE.) I
guess I should upgrade it.
Foto Trix
eraser dropdown). I first resize the brush so big it covers
everything, then I just click on the color I want removed. You will
have to do some tweaking to get it to remove all the colors
continously (1st: noncontinuous, then other set to continuous). Not
the exact answer, but this is what I basically do to remove colors...
http://www.fototrix.com (mashup your photos online, add special
effects, frames and fun templates)
http://www.txt2pic.com
(not quite so) Fat Sam
Aaah. I'm working from CS2....Sorry.
I'm not sure what tools you have avaliable in version 5 to be honest. I did
have it on my system running alongside CS2, but I got rid of it a few weeks
ago.
ronv...@gmail.com
Hi,
One possibility is to:
Create a new layer of white with as much white as you want to remove.
For example, rgb=252,252,252 to get ride of the top three. Place this
layer above the image you want the white removed from and set the
blend mode to difference. The do ctrl+alt+shft+e to make a stamp of
that image. The use that stamp as a mask for the image.
Good luck,
Ron
Nervous Nick
Turn off your monitor? ;>)
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YOP...
ray
I don't understand - what are you going to replace them with after you
remove them?
Mike Russell
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Here's one way to select all the white pixels in Photoshop 5 LE. First copy
the image to the clipboard, then go into QuickMask mode, and paste the image
to the mask.
Use levels to set everything below 255 to zero, and everything above it to
255. Because of the way Levels is implemented, you will need to do two
repetitions of this in order to get absolutely every white pixel. Switch
from QuickMask back to normal mode, and pure white pixels will be selected.
You may use your favorite method is to get rid of them.
More than likely there are easier and better ways to do what you are trying
to do. Full Photoshop has the dust and scratches filter that will do this
quickly and easily. Polaroid supplies an excellent plugin and stand alone
utility that does this, and it's free:
http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html
Both of these filters use what is called an "Impulse Filter", which removes
noise from an image by replacing the noise with averaged values from nearby
pixels. When using these filters, I find myself using the lasso tool to
select dust specks from the shadows, followed by a dose of dust and
scratches. This avoids degradation of detail in the lighter areas of the
image. If this is what you want to do, Polaroid's Dust and Scratches could
save some work.
--
Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com
The Bobert
<c7e46ac0-1ae5-4c5a...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
"simple_...@yahoo.com" <simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
You've had some good methods suggested. Like most things PhotoShop, there
are many ways to do most things. Here's how I would do it.
Open Image
Select Magic Wand
Click on a white area.
Under Special Menu choose Similar
All white areas should be selected. Now what are you going to do?
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Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff
Bob in Central California
The Bobert
<c7e46ac0-1ae5-4c5a...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
"simple_...@yahoo.com" <simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
You've had some good methods suggested. Like most things PhotoShop, there
are many ways to do most things. Here's how I would do it.
Open Image
Select Magic Wand
Click on a white area.
Under Special Menu choose Similar
All white areas should be selected.
--
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
As an alternate method, can you magnify the image till you can see the
pixels clearly and use the clone tool to select an adjacent pixel and
clone it to the white one?
ray
> ray <r...@zianet.com> found these unused words:
> Possibly transparency ...
>
> Answer: "Select => Similar
Possibly - it's certainly not clear to me.
simple_...@yahoo.com
> Open Image
> Select Magic Wand
> Click on a white area.
> Under Special Menu choose Similar
Thanks. It worked, but it took some experimenting. My first
experiments were in the Indexed Color mode. The magic wand always
crashed the Photoshop. Then I tried Grayscale mode - it worked much
better. I could select all the white pixels, but I could not remove
them, so I selected all the black pixels and I pasted them into a new
layer. This worked much better although I had to spend a minute
aligning the pasted pixels with the rest of the image.
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ray <r...@zianet.com> wrote:
> I don't understand - what are you going to replace
> them with after you remove them?
I am trying to make a shading for a patent drawing. The U.S. patent
office does not accept computer renderings of 3D CAD drawings. The
drawings must have only two colors (black and white) and they must be
either hand-made, or they must look like hand-made drawings. This
means that the only way to make relatively nice 3D patent drawings is
to combine 3 layers (lines, shading, text) in the Photoshop or a
similar program. The two top layers must be transparent, so all the
white pixels must be removed.
________________________
Sir F. A. Rien <jaSP...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
> He/she/it just hasn't learned PS or know about pressing F1.
The Photoshop is very unstable, it lacks elementary features that one
expects in a professional program, and its help file is a bad joke. I
am used to AutoCAD, so I curse the Photoshop makers and I wonder why
the professional computer programmers have not driven the Photoshop
makers to the unemployment line.
John Navas
<jaS...@gbr.online.com> wrote in
<jjfno35an7j21fmh8...@4ax.com>:
>The reason isn't important, the OP wants to remove -=all=- white pixels for
>some purpose. He/she/it just hasn't learned PS or know about pressing F1.
A well-known bug in PSE6 is that pressing F1 *doesn't* work!
--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
The Bobert
> Open Image
> Select Magic Wand
> Click on a white area.
> Under Special Menu choose Similar
I typed Special instead of Select.
Open Image
Select Magic Wand
Click on a white area.
Under Select Menu choose Similar
ronv...@gmail.com
simple_...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The Bobert <nob...@nowhere.nowhow> wrote:
>
> The Photoshop is very unstable, it lacks elementary features that one
> expects in a professional program, and its help file is a bad joke. I
> am used to AutoCAD, so I curse the Photoshop makers and I wonder why
> the professional computer programmers have not driven the Photoshop
> makers to the unemployment line.
Here is a list of the service packs from AutoCad LT from 1999:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9240818#section9
I assume that's the version you're using. Is that correct - AutoCad LT
from 1999?
John Navas
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote in
<a40292b2-083d-4443...@f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:
>I am trying to make a shading for a patent drawing. The U.S. patent
>office does not accept computer renderings of 3D CAD drawings. The
>drawings must have only two colors (black and white) and they must be
>either hand-made, or they must look like hand-made drawings. This
>means that the only way to make relatively nice 3D patent drawings is
>to combine 3 layers (lines, shading, text) in the Photoshop or a
>similar program. The two top layers must be transparent, so all the
>white pixels must be removed.
Why not just convert the image to grayscale, and adjust Levels Output to
eliminate pure white? What am I missing? Where are these white pixels
coming from? Do you have any before and after examples?
us...@domain.invalid
>
>> I am trying to make a shading for a patent drawing. The U.S. patent
>> office does not accept computer renderings of 3D CAD drawings. The
>> drawings must have only two colors (black and white) and they must be
>> either hand-made, or they must look like hand-made drawings. This
>> means that the only way to make relatively nice 3D patent drawings is
>> to combine 3 layers (lines, shading, text) in the Photoshop or a
>> similar program. The two top layers must be transparent, so all the
>> white pixels must be removed.
>
>
That's not you do it in Photoshop. You make the layers
as black and white, most easily by using "threshold" in
Photoshop. Then you just set the layer conversion to "multiply"
and opacity to 100%. Finally, flatten layers.
Doug McDonald
Paul Furman
Ah, OK that's what you're doing, filling in colors on a monochrome
bitmap. In photoshop the paintbucket might do what you need here... or
not. For future reference, the better tool for this is something like
Illustrator which can import the vector linework from ACAD & apply
gradients & line weights, etc. Also it's going to look better with
anti-aliased edges rather than jaggy forced bitmap edges. Zoom way in on
some text in photoshop & you will see gray pixels softening the edges.
Without those gray pixels it gets ugly.
> Sir F. A. Rien <jaSP...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
>> He/she/it just hasn't learned PS or know about pressing F1.
>
> The Photoshop is very unstable, it lacks elementary features that one
> expects in a professional program, and its help file is a bad joke. I
> am used to AutoCAD, so I curse the Photoshop makers and I wonder why
> the professional computer programmers have not driven the Photoshop
> makers to the unemployment line.
Photoshop is hard to learn and the help files are indeed a cruel joke.
Video tutorials are a nice way to go, or looking over someone's
shoulder. Simply tinkering will not get you far. I picked it up
gradually over about 15 years time working with people who know the
tricks. ACAD I mostly taught myself, they are *very* different.
Crashing isn't normal: something else must be going on. If the file size
is extremely large and/or too many undo levels are left in memory, that
could bring things to a near standstill but PS almost never crashes in
my experience.
John Navas
<jaS...@gbr.online.com> wrote in
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>"simple_...@yahoo.com" <simple_...@yahoo.com> found these unused
>words:
>
>>Sir F. A. Rien <jaSP...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
>>> He/she/it just hasn't learned PS or know about pressing F1.
>>
>>The Photoshop is very unstable, it lacks elementary features that one
>>expects in a professional program, and its help file is a bad joke. I
>>am used to AutoCAD, so I curse the Photoshop makers and I wonder why
>>the professional computer programmers have not driven the Photoshop
>>makers to the unemployment line.
>
>More likely your system is unstable.
>
>NEVER in more than 12 years of using PS from Version 3 up has the Magic wand
>EVER crashed the program!
>
>AutoCAD, OTOH ... earlier versions, click and pray (or was it prey?).
My own take is that AutoCAD has a much more logical menu system, and
that Photoshop has become less stable with each major release. Case in
point is Photoshop Elements 6, which has way too many painful glitches,
and a black user interface that's downright painful to use.
simple_...@yahoo.com
> AutoCAD, OTOH ... earlier versions, click and pray (or was it prey?).
Between 1984 and 1997 I was a sort of living encyclopedia of AutoCAD.
At that time there were usually 3 or 4 annual releases of AutoCAD.
For example: 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d. The "a" release was buggy so I always
ignored it. The "c" release typically came out half a year later. It
was either perfect or almost perfect. When AutoCAD crashes, it
automatically saves the drawing file, so it is not a catastrophe, but
a nuisance. AutoCAD is a professional tool meant for those who are
willing to invest at least a few hundred hours in learning it and
customizing (programming) it. Photoshop cannot be compared to AutoCAD
- it looks and feels like a bonus program bundled on CD-ROM sold for
99 cents.
nospam
<jaS...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
> "simple_...@yahoo.com" <simple_...@yahoo.com> found these unused
> words:
>
> >Sir F. A. Rien <jaSP...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
> >> He/she/it just hasn't learned PS or know about pressing F1.
> >
> >The Photoshop is very unstable, it lacks elementary features that one
> >expects in a professional program, and its help file is a bad joke. I
> >am used to AutoCAD, so I curse the Photoshop makers and I wonder why
> >the professional computer programmers have not driven the Photoshop
> >makers to the unemployment line.
>
> More likely your system is unstable.
no doubt it was. photoshop is extremely stable, but when run on flaky
hardware, crashes can occur.
> NEVER in more than 12 years of using PS from Version 3 up has the Magic wand
> EVER crashed the program!
i've used every version of photoshop since before 1.0 was released and
the only times it crashed that i can recall was in version 4 (i think
-- it's been way too long) when saving a jpeg could occasionally crash
if there was not enough memory, or a buggy third party plug-in, which
is not adobe's fault.
mian...@yahoo.com
<simple_langu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ray <r...@zianet.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand - what are you going to replace
> > them with after you remove them?
>
> I am trying to make a shading for a patent drawing. The U.S. patent
> office does not accept computer renderings of 3D CAD drawings. The
> drawings must have only two colors (black and white) and they must be
> either hand-made, or they must look like hand-made drawings. This
> means that the only way to make relatively nice 3D patent drawings is
> to combine 3 layers (lines, shading, text) in the Photoshop or a
> similar program. The two top layers must be transparent, so all the
> white pixels must be removed.
>
simple way to do what you want with MS Paint -
1. Save each layer as a separate picture
2. Open the bottom layer in MS Paint
3. Choose White as the background color (default)
4. Select "Paste from" from the Edit menu
5. Paste one of the other layers, choosing the transparent
background option (bottom of the tool bar)
6. Paste the third image
Paul Furman
Photoshop is a very advanced professional tool. I'm constantly amazed
how many tricks await my discovery, though I'm probably equally amazed
how anyone ever discovers them :-)
simple_...@yahoo.com
> If your drawings are bitmap-based (bmp, jpg, etc.), there's a
> simple way to do what you want with MS Paint -
>
> 1. Save each layer as a separate picture
> 2. Open the bottom layer in MS Paint
> 3. Choose White as the background color (default)
> 4. Select "Paste from" from the Edit menu
> 5. Paste one of the other layers, choosing the transparent
> background option (bottom of the tool bar)
> 6. Paste the third image
There are no layers in MS Paint, version 5.1.
John Navas
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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See step 1.
KatWoman
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sir F. A. Rien <jaSP...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
>
>> AutoCAD, OTOH ... earlier versions, click and pray (or was it prey?).
>
> Between 1984 and 1997 I was a sort of living encyclopedia of AutoCAD.
> At that time there were usually 3 or 4 annual releases of AutoCAD.
> For example: 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d. The "a" release was buggy so I always
> ignored it. The "c" release typically came out half a year later. It
> was either perfect or almost perfect. When AutoCAD crashes, it
> automatically saves the drawing file, so it is not a catastrophe, but
> a nuisance. AutoCAD is a professional tool meant for those who are
> willing to invest at least a few hundred hours in learning it and
> 99 cents.
So let's review
you are using an ANCIENT version of PS when you should be using ILLUSTRATOR
and complaining about PS sucking and then asking a PS group of PS fans to
help you by continuing to insult PS
IT DOesN'T CRASH FOR US
not version 4 not version 5 not 6 or 7.01 or CS
all worked fine on all my comps
>>>>Photoshop cannot be compared to AutoCAD
SO PROFOUND
OF COURSE NOT OR PS WOULD BE CALLED AUTO CAD DESIGN PROGRAM
PS does EXACTLY what it's designed for
FIX PHOTOS
AND IT DOES SO MUCH MORE FOR THOSE WILLING TO INVEST THE TIME AND PATIENCE
to learn it instead of whine about it people here told you several methods
Mike bothered to fully type the 5.0 ANCIENT method
let's review
RUDE
insulting
does not listen
whines
help this person??
I think NOT
simple_...@yahoo.com
> >> 1. Save each layer as a separate picture
> >> 2. Open the bottom layer in MS Paint
> >> 3. Choose White as the background color (default)
> >> 4. Select "Paste from" from the Edit menu
> >> 5. Paste one of the other layers, choosing the transparent
> >> background option (bottom of the tool bar)
> >> 6. Paste the third image
>
> >There are no layers in MS Paint, version 5.1.
>
> See step 1.
It works, but this is a crude method because it is nearly impossible
to make the corrections after the images have been combined. It is
much more convenient to separate the image into transparent layers.
John Navas
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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Agreed. I only use MS Paint for certain trivial tasks.
mian...@yahoo.com
No one is claiming that MS Paint is a sophisticated image
processing software. Everyone knows that it's a very basic drawing
tool. But it does exactly what you said you wanted to do in your
OP and in your later statement that I quoted. Perhaps I missed an
earlier post where you said that you wanted to be able to alter
the combined image.
My apologies for suggesting such a simple solution. Maybe it's
because I'm not the type to take my Rolls Royce to pick up a few
items from the Mom & Dad store next door.
dvus
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> "Fat Sam" <samandja...@knox.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
>
> These options do not exist in my version of the Photoshop. (5.0 LE.) I
> guess I should upgrade it.
I think you should be able to select one of the white pixels and then under
the SELECT menu click on "Select Similar".
--
dvus
dcar...@gmail.com
> simple_...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I am trying to remove all white pixels from a monochrome (black and
> > black) picture imported into Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE. The magic wand
> > does not work because it removes contiguous pixels only. Is there any
> > way to remove all white pixels?
>
> you might expect.
> First open your image in photoshop.
> and you'll see a small scale monochrome thumbnail preview giving you an idea
> of the selection.
> Click okay, and you'll find that in your image, all the white pixels in your
> image have now been selected.
> Hope that helps.
Your freaking brilliant! Thanks!
