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Making a Color Transparent


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PraytorAZ

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I've scanned some black ink drawings for putting into a book to be printed. The drawings are on a white background, but the print paper will be ivory. Is there a way to make the white image background transparent?
 
Maybe posting an example would it make easier for our members to assess the problem.
 
Scribble with a black ink pen on a piece of copy paper and scan it. It's nothing more than that. In this case the scribble is in the general shape of a cat--and the white paper clearly shows through the black scribbles. If it was a solid drawing--say a solid blue box on a yellow bg--I'd cut the box out and place the image on a transparent bg in a .png file. There's no way to cut this image out of the bg. If I insert the image as is into a hardcopy printed book, it will show as a white square with a black cat on it. I want the ivory page to show through without the image boundary lines. I don't have anything to upload because I don't want to purchase the artwork rights unless I know I can use it (actually there's 11 of them).
 
In my opinion using a blend mode by sampling the 'new' background color is the best option to prevent losing details...
The compagny that will print the book can use this method on any color of choice.

I used this picture on a white background

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White does not print. If there are No Values in the background there will be none on paper. Head to a paper store and buy a bunch of samples and print some on your home printer. Or do it at a copy shop.
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