making transparancy in a tattoo design

I have been trying to make a nice tattoo using Photoshop.
It is a full-colour tattoo-design showing a dragon.

I need to extract the dragon from its white background and give it a transparent background.
Using the selection by 'color range' works to remove the white background and make it transparent but it also removes the white parts in the dragon, like eyes, horns etc.

How can i solve this ?????

Use the magic wand set to contiguous on the background

wow Denise, so easy ..... tnx a lot !!!
I tried it and it works great!!

that transperency will not carry over into sl though.
you will need to create an alpha channel as well.

unless you fill the background with a color not in the tattoo design then set that color to transparent and save it as a png file.

For future reference, this kind of question is perfect for the Texturing Tips forum:

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Chosen Few, the alpha channel expert, has a sticky at the top of that forum:

Transparency and Alpha Channels: The Definitive Guide
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This thread is incredibly informative, I highly recommend it.

yep, chosen knows his stuff.

if i could do what he does i wouldn't have to troll these boards as much