How do people do this with there thumbnails?

[Cvdasfg]

In  the picture below how do people get the individual characters out?
 

I understand that its layered and that they are all separate pictures combined into one to make the thumbnail, but what i dont understand is how people can get pictures of characters or other things that are cropped like that?

 

 

 

For example how did they get the beetle and the logo?

[Guest]

Behold....

 

the PNG file!

[Cvdasfg]

1 minute ago, MagnesiumPC said:

Behold....

 

the PNG file!

not sure what you mean? I'm aware its a png file/custom thumbnail.

[thekeemo]

the wonders of photoshop

[desertcomputer]

Photoshop .. magical png or magical tool to removed the background etc. 

[Go_On_Shadow]

well, you can use a mask to "cut" out the character of the image and then that can work if you have Photoshop or they find a PNG file of the character. That means that the picture has a transparent backround

[Kryptyx]

PNG has transparency, so can just do whatever you want with it.

 

Example:

[Cvdasfg]

2 minutes ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

Photoshop .. magical png or magical tool to removed the background etc. 

 

2 minutes ago, Go_On_Shadow said:

well, you can use a mask to "cut" out the character of the image and then that can work if you have Photoshop or they find a PNG file of the character. That means that the picture has a transparent backround

 

1 minute ago, Kryptyx said:

PNG has transparency, so can just do whatever you want with it.

 

http://www.talentedheroes.com/Images/Resources/artwork/Heroes%20Gallery/anubarak.png?h=514&w=822&mode=crop

 

 

hmm interesting  thanks guys! never realized you could completely take out a background like that and put a character on something else.

 

Time to learn some photoshop I guess

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Cvdasfg said:

not sure what you mean? I'm aware its a png file/custom thumbnail.

PNG can do layer exclusion, meaning you can have an image without a square outline with white space.

[Mazeman03]

bruh its like the simplest form of photoshop 

[DaltonM]

12 minutes ago, Kryptyx said:

PNG has transparency, so can just do whatever you want with it.

 

Example:

snip

@Cvdasfg here's another example 

 

[AshleyD]

You can use the background remover or try the pen tool and select the character, invert and delete in Photoshop

[Kryptyx]

Most of the time you can find a high-res png render of the character or logo you want just by using Google image search, you can select images with transparent backgrounds and filter it down to PNGs only. Gifs also support transparency but are limited in colors, so they don't look nearly as good - the tradeoff is filesize.