Photoshop Tip #1 – Removing a White Background or Making it Transparent in Photoshop

Hello everyone!

Here’s a useful tip for all you Photoshoppers out there.

Have you ever wanted to use a logo or image, perhaps on your website or in your other marketing materials, but discovered that it has an ugly white background or box around the graphic? Here’s how to remove the background or make it transparent in Photoshop.

Firstly, import the image into Photoshop. Here we have the Smart Corporate Outsource Solutions logo and you can see the white background which we want to remove.

Excel Tip #1 – Creating Your Own Template in Excel

Hello everyone!

So here is just a quick tip to get us started.

Let’s say you have an Excel document which you create regularly and that requires a cover sheet to be used which we want in the same format in each instance. This could be an information sheet or an about page for example. Instead of having to create this from scratch every time, we could create one version of this and save it as a template.

Here’s how.

Firstly, in a blank spreadsheet in a new workbook, create the information headers for the data you want to capture each time. You can also delete the unused tabs and name the tab you’re working on appropriately.