Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

"Duane Lee" <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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]
> 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
>

You could always upload & post a link to the image , some kind sole may
help 
you out :)


-- 
Rob