Remove white background

[malika]

Hi everyone

I would like to learn how to remove the white background from these PNGs since I have to do this almost weekly (skins from a game). I'd like to make to change the white background to transparent.

I've been trying but no success so far. Some help would be much appreciated!

[xnview]

sorry but you can't with XnView

[malika]

sorry but you can't with XnView

It is, however, possible with XnConvert from what I understand?

[XnTriq]

XnConvert provides an action called “Replace color”, but you can't set the selected color to transparent.

[malika]

XnConvert provides an action called “Replace color”, but you can't set the selected color to transparent.

Thanks for the quick reply!

I've played around with the Replace color but, like you said, I couldn't set it to transparent.

This person on Reddit assured me a while back that he was using XnConvert to achieve this result. Unfortunately, he hasn't been active in a while. Can you confirm than none of your software can achieve what I'm looking for?

[XnTriq]

You are positive that I can't achieve this result with any of your software?

Well, not in one go. Here's a quick-&-dirty example:

• 1st step
  • Input: X:\Test\D1cs--FWkAALYKu.jpg
  • Image → Change color depth
    • Greyscale: 256
      Dithering: None
  • Map → Adjust
    • Brightness: -126
      Contrast: 127
      Gamma: 1,00
  • Filter → Median Box
    • Filter size: 13x13
  • Filter → Gaussian blur
    • Filter size: 13x13
    Map → Negative
  • Output: X:\Test\D1cs--FWkAALYKu_Mask.png
• 2nd step
  • Input: X:\Test\D1cs--FWkAALYKu.jpg
  • Image → Change color depth
    • 32 bits: 256
      Alpha: 255
  • Image → Add mask
    • Mask: X:\Test\D1cs--FWkAALYKu_Mask.png
      Opacity: 100
      Color: R0/G0/B0
      (•) Stretch mask
      [×] Blur
      [×] Use mask as alpha
  • Output: X:\Test\D1cs--FWkAALYKu_Result.png

  

  As you can see, the result is less than perfect.
  
  
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  • FAQ: How to set PNG transparency color?
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  • XnView MP: Chromakey feature