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Make background transparent? - chrisj - 02-20-2018 I'm simply tryingf to mkake this image's background transparent> Any guidance will be appreciated. RE: Make background transparent? - rich2005 - 02-20-2018 The image is in indexed mode - change to RGB Image -> Mode -> RGB Give it an Alpha channel Layer -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel Color select the black Invert the selection Select -> Invert Cut the selection Edit -> Cut Kill the selection Select -> None Restore the anti-aliasing Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur with values 1 or smaller ( 0.8 works - enter that by keyboard) The other way is just recreate the shape with a path, then stroke the path (but I was told off the last time I suggested that ) RE: Make background transparent? - chrisj - 02-20-2018 Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions, but  Select -- None doesn't seem to do anything, and Gaussian Blur isn't available (greyed out) any additional help will be appreciated RE: Make background transparent? - rich2005 - 02-20-2018 Did you put the image into RGB mode? Not doing screenshots for that: A video - no audio - same as previous sequence. RE: Make background transparent? - Ofnuts - 02-20-2018 Try Image>Mode>RGB (many things are disabled in color-indexed mode) This said, I agree with Rich, doing it properly from scratch takes 5 seconds, botching something from the existing image takes 5 minutes. RE: Make background transparent? - chrisj - 02-20-2018 Got it Thank you