Yes, When you import it you will see your background as locked.

What you do is drag that layer down onto the 'New layer' button by the trash icon.

This duplicates your back ground.

Then drag your 'locked' original background layer over the trash icon.

You are now left with a copy of your background.

Use the magic wand to highlight the the areas you want transparent with the magic wand, and then press 'delete'.

You should now see a checkered background where you deleted the image.

The checkered part indicates that this area you deleted is transparent.

Just repeat this for all the bits you want transparent.

You can check this by opening a picture then draging the layer over and see if any white bits show up.

Hope this helps.

i use a eraser called the background eraser.(thats if u taliin bout photoshop elements 2.0 but just in case u r ill tell) welll all u do is click on the icon that looks like an eraser and no the top after u click the icon u will see it there is an eraser background eraser and magic eraser......click on magic eraser and click on the background of the pikture u want to put and there should be a checkered background then thats how u know u did it...........

Why would you make something in Paint first anyway?

Hyuga Wrote: Why would you make something in Paint first anyway?

thats what i was thinking

Hyuga Wrote: Why would you make something in Paint first anyway?

Because, it's not paint, it's the user of paint that tells how good the fake will be.

but why not start in photoshop? What can paint do that photoshop can't?

SuperMarioBro Wrote: Hyuga Wrote: Why would you make something in Paint first anyway? Because, it's not paint, it's the user of paint that tells how good the fake will be.