Word Tree (Ink and Transparent) Experiment

Above is the 'Word Tree' that I drew after I had scanned it into my documents and uploaded it to Photoshop. In this photo I am cropping it down to keep the image straight. Below is the image I found on  Pinterest, which inspired my 'Word Tree' which includes lyrics of the artist I am making the album for.  

Above I am adding in the ink affect to the image, to make it stand out compared to the original pencil sketch.  i have done this by changing the threshold to become darker.

Here it I am preparing to clear the white from behind the tree, in order to leave a transparent background so when I add the tree to my album cover there isn't a white background behind it. But first to be able to clear the white I have to unlock the layer, which you can see I have already done in the picture if you look at the layers panel. 

Next I have selected the magic and tool, which will clear the white away. I have disabled contiguous, which means the whole of the background will be selected, as above, instead of just areas. 

Then once it was all selected I pressed Backspace on the keyboard and this cleared the background. The result was the above image.

Then I had to put the tree onto another PS document in order to change the colour. So I opened a new document of a similar size and then used the selection square to select the tree. I then copied the image and pasted it into the new document as you can see I am doing so below. 

Next I selected the layer so I could colour the image. Once selected you can se that it surrounded by marching ants.

Next to add colour I selected the fx at the bottom on the layers panel. I selected colour overlay and changed the settings to normal and then changed the colour to brown using the colour. As you can see the outline of the tree turned to this colour.

This is the final product of this experiment.