: Photoshop: Smoke with semi-transparent background? I'm attempting to make a transparent logo that uses a smoke effect. I used the tutorial found here to do so: Photoshop CS5: Setting a black

@Ogunnowo857

Like @Ilan said, you seem to have tutorial right there on how to get rid of the background, however here's another way of doing it and a way to get rid of the white part.

Since it's a black and white image, you could:

I'm assuming that this is one flat image you are working with.


Fill a new layer with white
Hold down Alt key and click the Layer mask icon.


That way the Layer mask will be filled with black.

Hold down the Alt key and click the layer mask thumbnail.


This gets you inside the layer mask.

Paste the image into the document now Ctrl+V
Hold down the Alt key and click the layer mask thumbnail again.


This gets you out of the layer mask.

Use levels to get rid of the extra white part Ctrl+L.


Start moving the black arrow to the right, until the extra white bits disappear
In some cases you might want to move the middle arrow as well, but I didn't find it necessary in this case.
Note that I have that red background there so that you can easily see the edge.





I'm not posting the png, so that you don't feel temptation to just use that.

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