Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

"Johan W. Elzenga" <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Duane Lee <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> You cannot save an irregularly shaped image. By definition, every image
> is a rectangle or a square. The only way you can make it appear as if
> the image is irregularly shaped, is by having your object in a layer and
> not having a background, so that anything surrounding the object is
> transparent. So before you remove the area arounfd the object, change
> the background layer into a normal layer first. You can do that by
> double clicking on its icon in the layers palette. You do have to
> realize that not every file format sup****ts layers and transparency,
> though. TIFF does sup****t it, JPEG does not, for example.
>
>
> -- 
> Johan W. Elzenga           johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
> Editor / Photographer     http://www.johanfoto.com

When you say you want to use it in a slideshow, is that the old fa****oned 
style or
as on your PC? Don't know how/if transparent background would work on the 
old style.

You could make a slightly bigger all , say black , image, paste your scan
on 
to it as another
layer then, with your scan layer selected, delete the white bits again, or

erase the edges roughly
for a cut out look.


PS If this all sounds amateurish , it's because I am ;)


-- 
Rob