First, let's look at creating a basic fade effect that will result in an image like this: <br/>Open your original photo in Photoshop. <br/>Since this tulip photo was from my digital camera, it was a whopping 1920x2560 pixels.

This tutorial works really well for anyone into photo manipulation because in this tutorial we are going to take a photograph with a white background and turn it into a transparent background without having to trace all around the object with the pen tool.

Learn how to install and use downloaded fonts and brushes.

1. Create a new document (File > New). Use whatever background you desire, and image size. In my image, I used a 450x250 canvas. <br/>2. Paste the image you want to center in your document, or create a new layer and draw the image.

This is just a simple tutorial on how to save your images with transparency

<span>Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, October 2005</span><br/>Here you'll find some extremely useful (and not very well-known) selection techniques: once you learn them, you will wonder how you ever got by without them!