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Originally Posted by stevieg
If you want to just save a cut out, you first have to duplicate the background layer, this will give you a transparent layer with the background layer on top.
Click on the eye on the original background layer to turn it off. Now select your duplicated layer and remove what ever you want to acheive your desired effect. If you dont make the original background invisable you won't be able to see what is being removed from the copy layer.
Hope this helps. Anymore questions just ask. Goos luck
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Ok, I've tried what you suggested but the background around the image is still white when I go to save it and then reopen it to see if I did it correctly. I don't want to see the white, or any color background for that matter. I just want to keep the image itself.
Let me put it like this: say I have a pic of a forest, I want to keep one tree out of that whole forest, so I delete them using the Magic Wand tool and erase the left over crap, like the misc. debris. Ok, so I have my one tree I wanted. I go to save it and when I do, the pic still stays the same in size and instead of the forest being there, it's replaced by white background.
I only want the tree, nothing more.