: Turning black and white image into black and transparent I am making a sticker for Macbook Pro. The image is of the Joker and it is in black and white. Now I wanna make it in black and

@Cooney243

Yet another way is to alt-click on the layer in the Layers panel to change it from a background layer to a normal layer. Then double-click on the layer in the layers panel to bring up the Layer Style screen. Alt-drag the right inner toggle on the This layer bar leftwards until the white disappears. (It helps to put a colored layer beneath temporarily to see what's happening.) Do not flatten the image; save as a PNG.

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@Hamaas979

Like @joojaa said in one of the comments, you could create a channel from the image



and then invert it like so:



Now you can load this channel as a selection in a new layer and fill with any colour you like and there you go.

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@Mendez620

You could do this with Select > Color Range, use that color picker and click on white. On the Select dropdown, pick Highlights and then click Ok and Delete to remove the white. You will end up with something like this:



Since @joojaa brought using channels up, yes, you can even Ctrl+Click on the Grey channel, go back to your Layer and hit delete..you would pretty much end up with this:

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