How to make a picture transparent online

From time to time, many users encounter the need to change the transparency of the image. First of all, this action implies the removal of the background, but sometimes it is required to make the entire picture or a photo in one degree or another transparent. We will tell you about each of these options in our current article.

We make a picture transparent online

Of course, process and modify graphic files, to remove the background or other elements to them much more convenient with the help of specialized editors programs. But when there is no such software or there is no desire to install it on the computer, it is quite possible to resort to one of the many online services. Fortunately, with the task assigned to us, they cope well, allowing not only to make the image transparent, but also to perform a number of other manipulations.

Note: You can achieve the desired effect of transparency without much effort with PNG format files. But with JPEG, in which, for example, photographs, certain problems can occur.

Method 1: ImGonline

This web service provides quite wide opportunities for working with graphic files. So, in his arsenal there are tools for resizing, compression, trimming, converting images and processing their effects. Of course, there is here and the function you need is a change in transparency.

Go to iMgonline online service

1. Once on the site, click the "Select File" button. A standard "Windows Explorer" window opens, go to the folder with a picture whose transparency you want to change. Select it and click Open.



2. The next step is to configure the background replacement parameters. If you need transparent, nothing in this section is not changed. If you need to replace another monophonic background, select any available from the drop-down list. You can additionally enter the HEX-code of the color or open the palette and select the appropriate shade out of it.



3. Deciding with the background parameters, select the format to save the image being processed. We recommend setting the mark opposite the expansion of PNG, after which you should click "OK".



4. The image will be processed instantly.

   

   On the next page, you can open it in a separate tab for preview (this will help to understand whether the background has become transparent)

   

   Or immediately save on a computer.



It is so easy to change the transparency of the photo, or rather, its background, using the iMgonline online service. However, there is also disadvantages - really qualitatively, just a homogeneous background can be changed. If it is with shades or simply multi-colored, only one of the colors will be removed. In addition, the service algorithms can not be called smart enough, and if the color of the background will coincide with the color of some element in the image, it will also become transparent.

Method 2: Photo

The next site, which we consider, provides the possibility of a completely different approach to the creation of a transparent picture. He really makes it so, and not just removes a homogeneous back plan. The web service of the photo clutch will be useful in cases where the image is required, for example, for its overlay to other or use as a branded substrate document, a watermark. Consider how to work with it.

Go to the online photo service Photo

1. On the main page of the site, click on the "Open Photo Editor" button.



2. Next, it may be necessary to allow the web service to use Flash Player, for which you need to just click on the empty field, and then click "Allow" in the pop-up window. In the photo editor that appears, click on the Upload photo button located in the upper right corner.



3. Next, click "Download from Computer" or select a second option if you have a link to the image on the Internet.



4. On the updated web service page, click the "Select a photo" button, in the System Explorer window that opens, go to the folder with the picture, select it and click "Open".



5. When the image is added to the photo editor, click the "Effects" button located at the bottom left panel.



6. In the right upper area, clicking on the round icon "-", change the degree of transparency of the image.



7. Having achieved an acceptable result, click "Collapse" to open the main menu of the editor on the site photo.



8. There click on the button "Save", located below.



9. Next, select the preferred download option. By default, "Save to the computer" is set, but you can choose the other. After deciding, click "OK".



10. The service will provide you with the ability to select the quality of the destination file. Install the box opposite the "Large Size" point and about the bottom-located line "Do not print the logo". Click OK.



11. The procedure for preserving the result, which, for incomprehensible reasons, can delay for a few minutes.



12. When saving the changed image will be executed, the online service will provide you with a link to download it. Go through it - the picture will be open in the browser tab, from where it can be saved on PC. Right-click and select "Save the file as ...". Specify the preferred directory to place the downloaded file and click "Save".



Changing the transparency of the image using the editor built into the online Internet service, requires a little more effort and actions than those considered in the previous method IMGONLINE. But after all and processing it performs on a completely different principle. It is important to consider the following - for images in JPG format will actually be changed not transparency, but brightness, that is, the image will simply become lighter. But with PNG files that support transparency by default, everything will be exactly as conceived - the picture, becoming less bright visually, in fact it will become more transparent in proportion to the decrease in this indicator.

See also: How to make an image transparent in Photoshop, CorelDRAW, PowerPoint, Word

Conclusion

On this we will finish. The article described two easy-to-use online services, with which you can make a picture transparent. They work on completely different principles, providing the possibility of a fundamentally different type of processing. Actually, this is what they deserve their place in our material, which, we hope, was useful for you.