Many ways to remove the background, some easy, some tricky. Just depends on the particular case. You might want to post another message and upload your image so we can offer suggestions. Click on the camera icon to upload.

Other considerations..

Do you want a new color background rather than white?

Do you intend to place the logon on a Web page?  If so, you might want the background to be transparent.

Both are easy to do.

Assuming the logo has hard edges, try using the quick selection tool.

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I don't know how the answered and helpful answer stuff works...

Hi,

The quick selection tool is in Photoshop Elements 6 and newer. The quick selection tool IMO is more accurate than the magic wand.

This is going to sound weird but a tip for using the magic wand is to try different eye dropper sample sizes to help dial in the magic wand. It an undocumented fact that the eye dropper sample size impacts the behavior of the magic wand tool.

When using the magnetic lasso, it can be beneficial to bump the image's contrast using an adjustment layer...like levels or brightness/contrast...to help the tool find the edges more easily.  After the selection is made, you can turn off  the visibility or trash the adjustment layer that you used to bump up the contrast.

Often, it's helpful to use a couple of tools on a selection...

Terri_F wrote:

 

This is going to sound weird but a tip for using the magic wand is to try different eye dropper sample sizes to help dial in the magic wand. It an undocumented fact that the eye dropper sample size impacts the behavior of the magic wand tool.

Terri,

I never knew that. So what is the impact?  Does a Point Sample or Average give a better selection?

From what I've read on the subject, the sweet spot seems to be either 3x3 or 5x5 average. According to Julieanne Kost's blog, the tools affected by the eyedropper's sample setting are the magic wand, magic eraser, and background eraser.

"The eyedropper’s “Sample Size”, set in the options bar, affects the Magic Wand, Magic Eraser and the Background Eraser."

Reference...

http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2009/03/the_eyedropper.html

Thank you, Terri F.

Both references deal with Photoshop; perhaps the engine is the same for Elements.

The Lunacore link is intersting. They set the the tolerance to zero. In other words, eyedropper settings  and tolerance are not independent variables.