Photoshop help?

[serai]

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Question time!


I'm putting together a business card design, and I need a little help. I want to include a coat of arms in the design. I've found the pic and bled out the colors to make a simple black-and-white line rendering of the image to insert. However, the card is going to have a colored background, so I need the coat of arms to be on a transparent surface rather than a white one, so that when I place it on the main background image, the contours and colors will show through the line drawing. (So there won't be a big WHITE block in the middle of the color image.) Is this making sense?

How would I do that? How would I remove the white background of the line drawing so that the lines "float" by themselves without ANY other color than the lines? Does anyone know how I would do that?

If anyone knows how to go about this and can explain it clearly, I'd sure appreciate it!


I'm using Photoshop CS2, by the way.

Comments

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Hi! I tried what you said but the results were still the same - the layer was black-on-white just like the original. :(

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Actually, create a new transparent layer below the layer with your graphic on it.

Then erase all the white bits - anything you want erased. There are easier/more efficent ways, but the good old eraser will do it.

You'll see the grid show though - that'll be transparent.