Delete A White Background with Procreate

Of all the useful tools and capabilities Procreate comes with, one of its most noteworthy utilities is its ability to delete backgrounds from images. There's various different ways of doing so, but in today's tutorial we'll be focusing on how to use Selections to delete a white background with Procreate, leaving a transparent background behind. Then, we'll be exporting our work in PNG format to preserve its transparent background.

[@ln7989]

I swear this was the only tutorial that I actually understood and succesfully completed. Thank you.

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[@wildingtreestudio408]

Soooooo clear and helpful. New to Procreate, just needed to know the tools as used to Photoshop - great 👍🙏

[@ababos7788]

Wonderful and calm explanation of this process. Thank you so very much!

[@asher3491]

Thank you! Been using procreate for over two years now and never figured it out.

[@jgdc2023]

Thank you! I'd been trying to figure out how to do precisely this, then happily found your video, which clearly explained it. Had never used that Cut option. 💡

[@poofthepup]

I've been trying to figure this out for ages!!! Thank you so much! Very helpful video!

[@T1S0_]

Thank you so much for this man! I really appreciate this, as I was having trouble trying to remove white backgrounds on images!

[@Nineether999]

No one else explained it like you, thank you 😊

[@pira0901]

I gave up do it with the eraser tool and tried to find another way to do it like in photoshop, so glad I found your youtube thank you

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THANK YOU SO MUCH NICK,
THAT WAS VERY EASY TO FOLLOW ALONG & I FEEL COMFORTABLE
ENOUGH THAT I COULD NOW DO IT MYSELF.
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[@Rysunkowa10]

Just wow… Thank you for a great tutorial!

[@Yeets_eclipse]

Thanks so much, it took forever to find a video on this

[@birdie399]

The best selection tutorial! Thanks for the video.

[@Make_It_Mobile]

Glad it was helpful!

[@thomascash6867]

Best tutorial on this subject for me that I have found so far. Thanks!!!

[@everafterinkable]

Awesome. Exactly what I was looking for

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! THIS WAS SO HELPFUL AND IM SUBSCRIBING

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Awesome tutorial Thank you.😀

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Hi I don’t find the tutorial to smoothen the edges. This is a great tutorial and helped me a lot. Thank you.

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Worked perfect for me, thank you.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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EXCELLENT clear instructions

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[@Make_It_Mobile]

Happy to help!

[@Piho.x]

Why is it so complicated? can´t they just...idk save it as transparent if you turn of the background? That would make it way easier

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Best one out there

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Very good video ty

[@ashleyaliberti3761]

THANK YOU

[@chrisgee5893]

There is another way on ipad. If you take a screenshot of the thing you want to remove the background from, use split screen with procreate in one pane and the photo in the other, touch and hold and the ipad will remove the background: continue holding and you can slide the clean image into procreate. Not my idea but something i found whilst looking for something else. It is simple and effective.

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[@EncouragingActiveLiving]

Very helpful video! I was successful on all white space except one spot. When I color in with the erase and then go to the wrench and cut, it deletes the picture entirely. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong?

[@Jadag187]

Genius❤❤

[@ten-ub4xd]

after i click and drag my image just looks inverted, it doesnt get rid of the background - any help please thanks os much!

[@LorealTulppa]

I have same

[@ericsonmarble5171]

Click add

[@Voice_of_a_dragon]

Ta mate thanks. Edit it’s working fine but is the any reason why background turns blue when start to get rid of it ?

[@karencastellanos7718]

Hi! Congrats, useful video. I would like you to show How can i animate in Procreate?

[@Axecapoeiracomoxvalley]

Ok great but now how do I send this image without the background layer!!!! I cant seem to send the cut out without the white background and I cannot erase the background image!

[@ShinyToonMonster]

This isn’t working for me

[@Jermaine80]

U seem pretty stressed about that

[@carlivasquez6840]

sounds like a skill issue

[@tera7621]

See if all your layers are merged. I made that mistake

[@BUNBON-yf6le]

Same

[@FullbodyHaki]

@@carlivasquez6840 naw Fr tho everyone I try to send it to my client it’s a white background but transparent on my phone don’t understand

[@HalfWarrior]

So, how to manually erase the background with the regular tools; and does’nt this depend entirely on the resolution of the image you are working with?

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[@_fitty_]

But when I try to make it an image it makes the background white anyway to fix that?

[@creativeartist83]

This doesn’t work for me either

[@fdr1516]

I still get the white background sharing with png

[@dennyskerb4992]

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[@bustercolin7507]

Cool video. Only question is that you still have the transparent border. How do you get rid of that?

[@Make_It_Mobile]

You can change the canvas size in the settings menu (the wrench icon at the top-left of the screen.) It will allow you to resize the canvas to fit your subject.

[@thomasbanks1684]

everytime i press cut it delete the whole image

[@suengnyanga7086]

There is no cut button

[@Emerald_2012]

It didnt work my backround is still white

[@MegAngela7]

My whole image gets deleted even when i do not go too 100%, what am i doing wrong?

[@Make_It_Mobile]

Sounds like the selection is getting lost somewhere along the line. Make sure you have that selection enabled before clearing it.

Note that if you have a black-on-white line art drawing you can easily mask out the white bg as described in this video: ruclips.net/video/-rrOlt_vZ8g/видео.html though it will ONLY work for black-on-white line art!
I’m currently illustrating a book working from .jpg scanned sketches sent by the author. The “autoselect” technique + erase touch-up doesn’t work very well for that, it produces jagged edges and it’s a lot of work.
I wish Procreate would add Gimp’s “colour to alpha” function, though. It can’t be that hard, I would think?

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useful but you called the mango an apple