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This is a revised, simplified tutorial of one that I had previously made. It's a super easy, no-frills way to remove a background and make it transparent usi. Capture any moment and edit with over 2 million combinations of FREE effects, overlays, and filters. Share your photos seamlessly with friends or followers through email, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or any social network. Follow us on Instagram (@pixlr) for daily inspiration, tips, and tricks to make cool photo edits. It's common to need a transparent background when layering or uploading to the web, but not many people can afford Photoshop or any other professional editor. Luckily, there's a free easy way to create transparent backgrounds. This wikiHow teaches you how to remove a background using a web application called Pixlr.

Fast and simple Edit Tools

All basic functions are available: Cut, Resize and Crop. These features work on all image formats, even on animated GIFs and transparent PNG's

With the Text Tool you can add text to your images. Also add text to animated images is simple and fast. With extra options you can add a border around your text and make the text follow an arc path so it looks like text around a cricle. With the shadow option you can add different kind of shadow colours and blurs to the text.

Merge two images together or blend multiple images. With the opacity setting you can blend images the way it suits you most. Editing an image here is so easy and fast that starting Photoshop takes longer.

Add an animated image onto a static background or add falling snow onto a picture. Your imagination is the limit to create nice dynamic images.

Make an image Tranparent with the Transparency tool. Make the background of an image transparent by simply clicking on the colour that needs to become transparent. Or remove transparency from your image.

Put an Image in Text, including a drop shadow and with transparent background. Who needs Photoshop?!

Add falling rain to an image. How wet is that?

You can even upload your own fonts to the editor and use them to add the text. Just choose your own font from your device and upload it to use it.

Stop reading and start editing!

This is a step by step guide on how to make a transparent background in Pixlr.

Making a transparent background is a simple trick. But many of us, especially the beginners, troubles a lot to create one.

For those who don’t know how to make an image transparent in Pixlr E, this tutorial is only for them.

The best part of this guide is- anyone can do it with zero skills in editing.

Even you don’t need to use Photoshop to make this happen.

So, let’s dive into it.

Related: How to Resize an image in Pixlr?

Contents

1 How to make a transparent background in Pixlr?

How to make a transparent background in Pixlr?

Follow the below step by step guide to create a transparent background in Pixlr.

Step 1. Visit on Pixlr E

In the very first step, visit on the official webpage of Pixlr E by clicking here. The homepage of it looks like this:

From the homepage, tap on the Create New button that can be found under History.

When you click on the button, a dialogue box will appear on the screen like this.

Choose an image size and give the title of your new image. Here, in my case, I choose Web Small and put the name as Transparent Background.

Make sure the Background option is disabled as we want to create a transparent one.

Then, click on the Create button. And here is our new transparent background:

Step 2. Open an image

Now, open the photo you want to place on the transparent background.

To import a photo, go to File > Open Image.

It brings you directly to your gallery. From there, select the picture you wish to edit.

Here is my original photo that I want to put it on a transparent background.

Step 3. Resize the photo

In this step, I need to resize the photo as you can see that the photo size is a little bit large than our previous created transparent background.

The width and height of this photo are according to 1500 by 1500. So, we should resize it.

To resize the photo, go to Image > Image Size from the top bar. It brings a dialogue box like this:

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From there, put the value that fits with the created (we did it in Step 1) transparent photo’s size.

So, I put this value- 600 x 600.

Then, tap on the Apply button to save this.

Step 4. Create a selection with Wand Select

From the left toolbar menu, first, choose the Zoom tool and zoom in your photo.

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Next, select the Wand Select tool from the toolbar. Then, click on the white space (pressing shift button from the keyboard) of your photo that makes a selection around the picture.

Now, inverse the selection going to Select > Invert Selection. You can see that it only selects the subject that I want to place on the transparent background.

Step 5. Place the subject on the transparent background

This time choose the Arrange tool from the left toolbar menu.

Then, go to Edit > Copy. It selects and makes a copy of the subject.

And then, select the transparent background.

Next, head over to Edit > Past to place the subject on the transparent background.

And here it is:

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It’s amazing! You can now place the subject on a transparent background successfully.

Step 6. Save the Image

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Finally, it’s time to save the picture. To do that, go to File > Save. It brings up a dialogue box name Save Image.

From the box, make sure you select the PNG as your file type.

Lastly, tap on the Download button to save it on your computer.

Thus it.

Conclusion

As I told you at the beginning of this guide that making a picture transparent in Pixlr is super simple.

To make a transparent background in Pixlr efficiently, follow the step by step guide I mentioned above.

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Forget the step by step method? Don’t worry. I have broken them down here again.

Visit on Pixlr E
Open an image
Resize the photo
Create a selection with Wand Select
Place the subject on the transparent background
Save the Image

I hope you find this guide helpful. If so, then don’t forget to share it with your friends.

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Do you have any questions about this? Then, let me know by leaving a comment below.

Sohel Rana

Sohel Rana is the founder, content crafter, and SEO's at Pic Editor Review. He has grown his passion over years about writing on software, how-to guide, and product description.