Please help a newbie out with what should be a simple process.

Hey guys, I'm a pretty much a mediocre Photoshop user at best. I can use all the basic tools and usually can figure things out once I find a tutorial, but I haven't been able to find the best way to perform what seems like a simple step. I have a bunch of icons I need to edit by removing the outer grayish/transparent square.
I've tried the "Select > Color Range", and the "Magic Wand Tool", but those tools by themselves don't get the job done. I wasn't able to get either of these tools to only select the exact area I needed to remove. The issue seems to be that some of the logo's have similar gray features to them that need to remain after I delete the outer gray areas.
I need to end up with just the main logo in the square icon in a transparent .png. What would be the best way for a mediocre photoshop user to remove the outer gray portion of an image...and have all the edges just as sharp as they are now?
Thanks in advance for any help.
For reference, I've included a few of the icons here:

Thanks for the step by step instructions. I followed what you suggested and for some reason, I'm just not getting the results. The outer gray areas are not as prominent, but they are still there (but now white) once I finish the steps you suggested. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
So whatever color I use in the last step to fill the new layer that is the color of the outer gray area and the main icon graphic.
For example, I tried the "?" icon. This was the before:
And here is the after (with using red the last step so it will show here)
And here's white ( I know it doesn't show anything here, but if seeing this example would help you could save it and open it)
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Thanks again for all the help so far. Any additional help would be very much appreciated.

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Thanks to you and everyone who showed interest.
These are the files, I put them in both version 5.0 and 5.1 format.
Sub1 is an attempt to make a sub VI that would be part of a larger
prog. It works by itself but not when part of the bigger picture.
The bigger picture is really just 5 possible copies of the sub.
What should happen is when the operator enters a number into "Input
Tray Number" and hits enter, the timer starts counting up to 45
minutes. If it reaches 45 min an alarm goes off. If the "Tray in
Oven" switch is hit before the alarm state, the timer stops and
everything is reset to default.
Again, it works fine in sub1.vi. The problem comes when trying to use
5 seperate instances
of that sub in Tray Timer.vi. The timers need to
operate completely independantly of each other.
I'm SURE it's a boneheaded mistake I'm making somewhere. I just can't
see where.
Thanks for any help provided.
Steve Crowder
[email protected]

Regretfully, and with all due respect, your problems are manifold. The
While Loop construct you used does not truly monitor for the user entering
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clock will run only if the appropriate "Tray in Oven" Boolean control is set
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If you started Tray Timer.vi using the Run Continuously button, you have the
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The simplest solution is to enclose each of your While Loops in yet another
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Loop to either some overall Boolean control or its local or global;
enclosing all of your While Loops in a single While Loop will have the same
results as using the Run Continuously button.
Remember that the Run Continuously button should be used only for debugging
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Code well, and prosper!
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> Thanks to you and everyone who showed interest.
>
> These are the files, I put them in both version 5.0 and 5.1 format.
>
> Sub1 is an attempt to make a sub VI that would be part of a larger
> prog. It works by itself but not when part of the bigger picture.
> The bigger picture is really just 5 possible copies of the sub.
>
> What should happen is when the operator enters a number into "Input
> Tray Number" and hits enter, the timer starts counting up to 45
> minutes. If it reaches 45 min an alarm goes off. If the "Tray in
> Oven" switch is hit before the alarm state, the timer stops and
> everything is reset to default.
>
> Again, it works fine in sub1.vi. The problem comes when trying to use
> 5 seperate instances of that sub in Tray Timer.vi. The timers need to
> operate completely independantly of each other.
>
> I'm SURE it's a boneheaded mistake I'm making somewhere. I just can't
> see where.
>
> Thanks for any help provided.
>
> Steve Crowder
> [email protected]

Re: Help! Having trouble with what should be a simple v. (1/1)

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