[thelist] anyone know a good (cough free cough) tool for making image backgrounds transparent?

[Paul Bennett]

my best effort on the way... :)

Timothy J. Luoma wrote:

>
> Ok, well I've spent far too long on this and haven't gotten anywhere but
> frustrated.
>
> Does anyone know a good piece of software for Win32 (preferably free)
> that makes it easy to take out the background of a picture (leaving it
> transparent)?
>
> I have a very special reason for doing this .... namely I've got a cute
> picture of my kid I want to show off ;-)
>
> After 2 hours I'm 90% of the way there but I just cannot get this
> cleaned up any better and know that I'm missing something.
>
> (Unfortunately I only have the LE version of Photoshop that came with my
> digicam, and the wife will definitely NOT allow me to spent a month's
> mortgage on the full version ;-)
>
> http://tntluoma.com/temp/ethan.html
>
> Any clues/tips appreciated.
>
> TjL
>
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