how to edit picture to make background from white to transparent ?

Question

I have an image of a tree on a white background and another image of a piece of grassland.

How do I edit such that the background of the tree is changed to "transparent" so that I can put it on top of the green grassland image ?

I have Artweaver, Microsoft Paint...Any way to edit it ?

thanks for any advice
stongmount.

Answer 1

If you are using MS office 2007, follow the steps below:

Paste the photo/picture in your ms word (or power point), then click on the photo, Under picture tools> Format > Recolor (far left side) > Choose Set transperent color (looks like a pen with arrow pointer) point the pen to the photo's background area.... you will see the result then!



Hope this help.

Answer 2

Use the background eraser in photoshop or gimp.

Answer 3

on the picture tool bar there should be something( the one that pops up by the picture not the bottom)