Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

Johan
I certainly appreciate yours and everyone's help in trying to solve my 
problem - it is obviously much more difficult than what I had first 
anticipated (why is it that ALL my problems seem to be that way???).  I
have 
now spent hours upon hours and have been unsuccessful.  I have gone
through 
your steps many many times and I must be missing something for I still get
a 
"white box" in the deleted area when I have saved the file.  Unless you
have 
any other ideas - I guess I will "throw up my hands" and say that "PS 
Elements beat me on this one".
"Johan W. Elzenga" <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
>
>
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