Thread: Colour selection and 'colour to alpha'

If you are not well versed with the Path Tool and Free Selection, and you want to remove the background from an im1tge, then these two colour tools come in handy. Both of them work pretty differently.



With the colour select tool, you first select the tool from the tool bar and then click the colour you want to select/remove, and press Delete. That will remove the selected colour from the background. But it will leave some traces on the border of the image/colour. Later on, you can use the blur effect on the borders to smoothen it.

'Colour to alpha' takes the same process to the next level. It makes it even easier for you to remove the background. Select the colour you want to remove from the 'wand' tool and navigate to Colour~Colour to alpha and apply the effect.