You can use this method with any solid-color background.
If you have Windows 10, use the “Using Paint 3D” method instead. It’s not possible to make the white background transparent in MS Paint. This method will teach you how to cut out the part of the image you want to keep and paste it onto a different background.
Even if the color of the box was already white, this is just an extra precaution to take in case image’s background has any gray or other tints to it.
The Transparent Select tool ignores the white background when you copy images in Paint and paste them into another image.
Everything within your selection that doesn’t match the color in “Color 2” will be preserved. If the background isn’t completely white (such as if there are shadows or objects in the background you don’t want to keep), choose Freeform selection instead so you can trace around just the part of the image you want to keep.
Click File in the upper-right corner. Click New to create a new file, or click Open to open a different image.
Click and drag the pasted selection to move it. There may still be some white around the edges of the image you pasted. Keep reading to learn how to fix this.
You can click the arrow pointing down below the brush to select different brush types.
Zoom in and try not to color within the image. If the background is not a solid color, you may need to use the eyedropper tool more than once. Click the drop-down menu below Size to change brush sizes. Use a larger brush size to color over the bulk of the remaining white edge, then zoom in and switch to a smaller brush for precision. Look for any white parts of the image that the Transparent Select tool didn’t copy. Use the brush tool to color them back in. If you accidentally color over a part of the image you don’t want to, press Ctrl+Z to undo the mark.
