changing background color in an A-Aliased jpeg

I'm wanting to change the backgound color to brown or something in a jpeg that has anti-aliased edges like this (no I dont have the orginal):

Edit: i gues browsers dont show psds:



any help would be appreciated,
LNMEgo

An easy way to do it is to press "W" to select the magic wand tool, then just click on the white area. That should select all of the white. Now either fill that selection with a brown color with the paintbuck tool, or go to image>adjust>hue/saturation and change it to brown.

There are a billion other ways to do that, and some will probably have better results, but that is the quickest and easiest way.

From white to Brown?

One trick is to select all the white
Make the selection one pixel bigger.
Make a new layer, set it to "multiply" and fill in with brown.

All the white should turn to brown and all the black stays black. Works best if theres going to be a black outline around everything.

I guess what I was hoping for was some way to pick all the white (like with the magic wand) and also being able to pick all the white aspect (or non-dark -sorry for my terminology) and then delete it so that I can have any backgound (another layer with any design) and it willshow throught the AA'd edges accurately.

Is this possible or am I dreaming too big?
--LNMEgo

Just do the same thing but instead of filling the selection with a color, just press delete. And then put that layer on top of any other layer you want.

Ah i see
Try select a white area with the magic wand tool, but make sure you have contiguous TURNED OFF and perhaps tolerance set at hmm 5.

This should select all the white, and near-white areas in your entire image

thanks to both of you.

I was able to do exaclty as I wanted. Mulitiply made a difference (and I've learned all about blending) and all the other info helped too.

LNMEgo

You could also just have both forground and background selected as white, then go to select>color range: option-selected colors. That should do the trick. Then delete.