Working with Black and White Clipart

Black-and-white clip art can be tricky to copy and paste. 
If you try to paste it onto a colored image, you end up with several stray white pixels to clean up.   Next time, try this trick:

Open your clip-art image, and increase its color depth to 16.7 million colors. 

Now click on the Wand tool in the Tool palette and click on a white part of the image. 

Go to the Selections menu and choose Modify, Select Similar. 
This will select everything white in the clip art. 

Next, choose Invert from the Selections menu
From the Edit menu, you can Copy and then Paste As A New Layer onto your new background.  

Finally, all you need to do is clean up the stray white pixels. 
Simply go to the Layers palette and change the blend mode of your clip-art layer to Multiply. 

Click on the arrow next to Normal in your Layer palette to select the blend mode. All the white pixels will disappear.

Thanks go to PSPMadeEZ for the above information.

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