Gimp Erase Selection To Transparency, I get asked this question a lot: why isn’t the eraser tool erasing to transparency? Instead, it may be erasing to white, black, or some other color. Hitting delete *used* to make selection transparent. You can also use the Magic Wand tool to select specific areas and delete them to create transparency. My background is white while my foreground is a pale blue and gold. Another method of doing this is to change the threshold on the bucket all the way to 0 if you only want to fill in 100% transparency. Note that if you need the selected area to be 100% . For the moment, I just want to remove solid colors from the background and make them transparent. 3. I accomplished this on 3 pictures by: Opening image, Selecting the background with magic wand. Clear The Clear command deletes everything in the current selection. aj, cv2, cux, go0kjx3y, ucqn3, okr, hserl, hu7ny5, bvm2, 8j,