Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

Imagery is a rectangle only. Thus you have to have -=something=- to fill in
the deleted areas.

You can use the colour picker and select the areas and fill with some
colour
or pattern that will suit.

You could, for example, select a section of the newspaper without printing
and then capture that as a pattern and fill the 'white' areas.


"Duane Lee" <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> found these unused words:

>Rob thanks for your help - I'm half way there.
>I have followed your instructions and yes have eliminated the unwanted
>material.  I have saved the file and when I view it I now have a "white"
>space in the area that had the unwanted material.  Can you help me remove
>that white area so that I looks like I took a pair of scissors and cut
out
>the article prior to scanning it?
>Thanks,
>Duane
>
>"RobertJM" <robert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> "Duane Lee" <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:LPH4k.43351$102.21655@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Cropping irregular shapes
>>> Can someone out there help with what I'm sure is a simple task for
>>> those who know Photo Shop -obviously, by my asking the question, I do
>>> not.
>>> I have a newspaper article that was scanned and then given to me.  I
want
>>> to manipulate in Photo Shop prior to including it in a slide show.
>>> The article headline is 5 columns wide.  The desired article beneath
>>> is 3 columns wide with the other two columns filed with advertisements
>>> and other undesirable material.  I am wanting to "crop out" or
>>> eliminate those adjoining "undesirable" columns.  I cannot do it by
>>> using the standard cropping tool - at least with my knowledge.
>>>
>>> Help, please, I know this should be an easy task for those in the know
>>> - unfortunately I am not such a person.
>>>
>>>
>> I haven't got Elements but I presume it has the retangle marque tool , 
>> select the area you want to remove then press delete(or backspace).
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Rob
>>