How to insert a photo with a transparent background (photoshop)
I retrieved a photo of a sun on a transparent background and would like to copy/paste it onto another photo, but when I proceed as usual with Photoshop (Photo A select all - Edit/copy - open Photo B Edit/paste), Photo A (the sun) ends up pasted with the checkerboard background!
How should I do so that the checkerboard background of the sun does not appear on Photo B (the destination for the sun)?
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Hello again,
The AI's answer didn't help me...
It's at the level of selecting the sun on a checkerboard background (Photoshop) where I’m stuck. If I choose “Select All,” it copies the sun and the checkerboard; if I select the subject, Photoshop doesn’t recognize it (not large enough: the sun photo isn’t as sharp as a drawing and appears ethereal without very clear edges, hence the likely difficulty...
I thought that by downloading a sun image A in .png (RGB mode) and doing "select" → "select all" in Photoshop, the transparency checkerboard would be truly transparent and not appear on image B when pasted on top. Unfortunately, I get both the sun and the checkerboard, which is useless to me... -
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Hello,
Maybe your checkerboard is not transparency but a real checkerboard. You should try with another image with transparency.
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Hello Jee Pee,
Thank you for your message.
I tried with your image and it works very well. That said, it is a drawing with clearly defined outlines.
The image I tried to overlay on another photo was a sun photo (with not-very-defined contours) on a checkerboard background, presented as an image with a transparent background (png). I tested with several other photos of this kind, but every time the checkerboard ended up stuck to the sun photo, as if it were a real checkerboard. With sun drawings, there’s no problem. In my opinion, when it’s an image with poorly defined contours, there must be another trick I’m missing...
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You should share your image to see.
There are plenty of images on the internet, they are now mostly paid, or you have to sign up. I found some, as you indicated with a background that looks like transparency, but isn’t.
Let's try to work with this image. IMG2, with the magic wand, and lots of trial-and-error on the settings, we select the background. We invert the selection, copy and paste into the sky. Reproducing faithfully all the filaments of the sun would require a lot of work, too much, in the selection process on IMG2.
You can also try, to remove the background, the site: It has been around for a long time, but I just read that it will disappear on December 1st.
It's a bit better than what I did.
