Anyone feel like doing a favor? :)

[rwilliams]

This is a tattoo that I have that I want to incorporate into my logo/watermark. I have tried everything and can not give it a transparent background. If I use the magic wand, it removes the tiny lines that complete the dove. If I try to replace the lines, they don't look nice and smooth.

Is there anyone with some graphic designing experience that could take that image and give it a transparent background?

 

[tirediron]

Is this an image to which you hold rights?

 

[Kendall9991]

Does it matter since it's a tattoo?

 

[tirediron]

Does it matter since it's a tattoo?

Unless its a public domain image, it matters. No different than someone using one of your images on their website.

 

[Judobreaker]

Yes I can do this perfectly and it won't take me more than a minute. The trick is quite easy, but first I'd also like to know if you do hold the rights to the image.

 

[sscarmack]

So you can get a tattoo of an image you don't own but yet you can't use it for personal use? Wait what? hahaha

 

[bianni]

You can trace the artwork with the pen tool on another layer, then make into a selection and fill with black. Delete the original and save as psd.

 

[Msteelio91]

You can trace the artwork with the pen tool on another layer, then make into a selection and fill with black. Delete the original and save as psd.

Just use the color space tool and select the white as transparent

 

[480sparky]

Yes. It's an easy 30-second edit to do. But until I see something that says you have the rights to the image, I'm not touching it with a 10-foot mouse.

 

[tirediron]

So you can get a tattoo of an image you don't own but yet you can't use it for personal use? Wait what? hahaha

Yep, just like when I take a photograph of you and your family - you can't change/edit/modify the photo (what the OP wants to do) , nor can you use it for commercial purposes. That said, it's entirely likely that this particular image is rights-free; many, many tattoo images of this nature are, but there are an equal number drawn by the tattoo artists and they're just as entitled to protect their work as we are ours.

 

[photog4life]

I have a quick question about copy right... If he were to use photoshop and essentially trace this tattoo would that count as his work and he would have the copyright since pixel by pixel it would not be the same? Did that make sense at all?

 

[The_Traveler]

no.
he has not added any artistic effort that alters the form and the sense of the original.

Derivative work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[rwilliams]

No, I do not have the rights. I didn't think about that. I found it online for a tattoo awhile back on google images, so I wouldn't even know who to contact about the rights. I guess I'll look into that and then come back

Yes. It's an easy 30-second edit to do. But until I see something that says you have the rights to the image, I'm not touching it with a 10-foot mouse.

 

[rwilliams]

Okay, I just did a search on google images, the same way I found it to begin with. The only thing I can find it linking back to are websites with collections of photos of tattoos.. None of them actually own or created the image.

 

[JohnnyWrench]

If you have Photoshop then you have the tools to do this. Take it as an opportunity to learn something and figure it out. As others have said, it's really not that hard.