Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

Duane Lee <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Johan W. Elzenga" <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:1iijwz1.mtv6aeibycybN%nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Duane Lee <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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".
> >
> > You have to tackle this step by step.
> > 1. Did you change the background layer into a normal layer before
> > removing the area around the object?
> > 2. If so, do you see transparency (shown as a checkerboard pattern)
> > after you've deleted the area?
> > 3. If so, what file format did you use to save the image?
>
> Johan,
> Answer to question #1 is "yes", question #2 "yes", question #3 TIFF
> Thanks for your continued sup****t,
> Duane

Please do not top post. People like to read a question before the
answer, not vice versa.

So are you saying that you open that TIFF again and now suddenly the
checkerboard pattern has turned to white?

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