: How to remove part of a raster image? I have the following icon as a raster image, and I need to extract the "i" to do something with it. I'm not able to identify the font (it isn't Times),

@Kevin459

If you don't want to use a similar font, you could do the following in Photoshop:


Grab the magic wand tool W.
Bring the Tolerance down to 15 or lower
Select the body of the "i"
Ctrl + J (Cmd + J for Mac) to duplicate that layer


The dot of the "i" would be easy


Grab the Elliptical Marquee tool
Move your mouse to the center of the dot
Hold Alt + Shift then click and drag to select a perfectly circular marque around the dot.
Ctrl + J (Cmd + J for Mac) to duplicate that layer
Select both your newly created layers
Ctrl + E (Cmd + E for Mac) to Merge the layers


Done.

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@Gail6891361

The image is the standard "information icon" from Windows XP designed by The Iconfactory (iirc). The "i" is Georgia Bold, probably with 110% width and most likely tweaked on a per-pixel basis.

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@Goswami567

I see two options:


Trace it with the pen tool(this is a faster option but it might not be exact{unless you are really good with pen tool} and you don't end up with a lossless file)
Do some research, find the font, and recreate it. ( Takes longer than option 1, but you end up with a completely lossless file that you can do anything you want with.)

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