: How to make jpeg image into an outline with transparent background I'm trying to do something really simple, that I think I've done before. I'm a beginnner with PS and AI, and need some help.

@Mendez620

I figured it after HOURS of messing around and want to hit myself in the head!!! It's the magic wand tool. Its exactly how I thought. Crazy easy, simple and fast.

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@Nickens508

Another option, for simple B&W like the one you are showing is simply going into one of the RBG channels (choose the darkest one), say the red one and making a selection, inversing that selection and then filling it in black on its own layer. For the transparency make sure to shut off the layers below it. If that seems too complicated then I highly suggest you take the time to go through some tutorials and learn the application a little bit more. Good luck.

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@Eichhorn212

As it was already mentioned, recreating this in AI would be the ideal option, so you could change color and resize without loss. There is however, another option.

Open the image in photoshop.

click Select > Color range. Then with the eye dropper select the white background (increase the "fuzziness" if necessary to select any other parts of the background that may not be true white, which I encountered with the image you provided).

Then command-shift i (control-shift i for pc) to select the inverse (the black parts of the image).

Then at the bottom of your layers panel select "add mask".

Then Command (or control for PC) click the thumbnail of the mask you created, which will select just the mask.

Then click "Create a new fill or adjustment layer" then select "Solid Color". This allows you to change the color.

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