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Is there a way of making the white areas in a picture transparent, so that when placed on a background, the background colour appears on the picture where there was previously white?

In fact I’m trying to insert a logo on a blue background. I just want the logo to appear on top of the background, but when I insert it on the background, a white rectangular box appears around the logo, because the white parts in picture file containing the logo aren’t transparent. Can anyone help?

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percusse
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Percy
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    This is no question releated to TeX I think. It's a problem of your used image. Ask your institution for an logo with an transparent background and (if allowed, it depends on the CI of the institution) the foreground in white. – Mensch Aug 22 '12 at 16:59
  • So you want to remove the white background and not add a background like you title suggests? – Martin Scharrer Aug 22 '12 at 17:02

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I see your image is in JPG format. AFAIK, JPG does not support transparency. So what I did was (1) opened the image in gimp; (2) added alpha-channel (this is transparency in image-speak); (3) saved it as a PNG image (dmcmn.png).

Then I compiled a simple file:

\documentclass{article}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{blue!20}
\includegraphics{dmcmn}
\end{document}

Here is the result:

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Boris
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