How do I clean up my transparent image

[cr8ted2praze]

Hi all

I'm so 'green' at using photoshop, it's unreal!, so I've come to you guys for some help. All I have is a old copy of Photoshop CS to work with.

I have a logo that I have deleted most of the white background of the image using the background eraser tool. First of all I have probably saved it incorrectly as I have saved it to 'web' as a gif file, so that I can use it on the web in the future, but for now I want to use it on print materials.

Anyway on the preview screen, where it shows you what the image looks like transparent, the optimized image has loads of white specks and spots on that I have obviously missed, so I saved it as the 'original' image - which looks much better - hope your still with me....

When I insert the saved 'transparent' logo in my print materials, I can still see lots of white specks, especially around the lettering of the logo, which I obviously can't use as it looks awful.

Question is how can I get rid of these? Only simple answers will do. Remember I'm not as experienced as some of you

Thanks in advance

Cr8ted

[iDad]

seeing the image in question always helps to give you an idea as to what to do, but with that said it soulds like you have to select the logo and only the logo and delete the rest
fairly simple,maybe only the image can tell us

[jerryb]

hi,
we have all been there in fact a lot of us are still learning... smiling...

like idad mentioned.. it would be very usefull to see the image....
to determine what the best way to cleanup and in fact maybe a better way than using the eraser...
if you don't have a file share site for you to link the picture to... use this site..
read the directions and upload and when fnished just copy and paste the url...
it free , no registration required and it simple...

http://www.pixentral.com/

for the post part sounds like, when using the the eraser you didn't completely erase the white, happens easy enough ... so end up wil a lot of white "holidays" as i would say when painting and missed spots .... smiling...

probably the best bet is like idad mentioned.... to select the logo itself and then do a copy and paste, that will automatically put it on a nice clean transparent background layer and then you can save that layer as a transparent gif without all the "holidays"

[cr8ted2praze]

Thanks guys. I've sent you both a PM, please check.

Thanks in advance.

Cr8ted.

[jerryb]

hi,
these are my opinions......
a picture always says a lot more and it more accurate in what going on...

this is a common issue where you have alot specks and halo around the object and in my expereience whentext is involved even more so... and they can be rough to get out...

myself on this one i think what i would do.... is forget about selecting the text... just get a good selection of the object and put it on a nice blank layer...then ......

and choose the right font and retype the text .... that will insure you have a good nice clean text image...... on my computer i have a font called new boston which is very close to the one in the image... to me that would be the easist and better quality

[cr8ted2praze]

Thanks jerry, appreciated.

[jerryb]

hi,
your welcome... and like i said the utting fresh text is the way i would go...

how ever you want to try and clean up that one...

you can try useing color range
and try to get a good cutout where you eliminate most of the specks...

then all you have to deal with is the halo's those llittle spots that are on the edge of the cutout...

now this little tutorial applies to gif and png...... works most of the time but not always
http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/phot ... .8923.html