I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.

Kindly help.

Water Cooler v2 <wtr_clr@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
> and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
> selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.

1: Make sure that you are working on a real layer, not the background
layer.

2: Make sure that there is no other (black) layer beneath the one you
are working on.


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"Water Cooler v2" <wtr_clr@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>I selected and area I wanted to make transparent, with the magic wand,
> and hit the Delete key, like I always used to do, expecting that the
> selection would become transparent. Instead, it turns black.
>
> Kindly help.

The background layer is "locked" by default, to delete pixels from this 
layer, (not a good idea, work on a copy of the layer, ctrl+j to copy))it 
need to be unlocked.
Alt+mose click on the name "background" layer.
To save the file as transparent, don't save as a JPG, use PNG.
TWK