Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

"Talker" <Talker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:28:17 GMT, "Duane Lee" <DuaneLee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>Tacit,
>>My project is what I will call a "video scrape book" for which I have 
>>chosen
>>a "linen" background.  My scanner will scan just the image in a JPEG 
>>format.
>>I will then place that image in the project scrap book and it will look
as
>>if I have pasted it in a traditional scrap book (with the linen
background
>>showing all around".  That is my goal - - - it is NOT to have a look of
a
>>"white piece of paper stuck to the article"
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Duane
>>
>>
>     You can't do it Duane.  An image can only be saved as a square or
> rectangle.   If the scanned newspaper article isn't a square or a
> rectangle, then you can save it as an irregular shape with a
> transparent background in Photoshop, but when you place it in the
> video scrapbook program, it won't recognize the transparent background
> and will make fill in the transparent sections with white.
>     If you're using a linen background, you could use the linen as a
> background image in PhotoShop and place the newspaper article on top
> of it, then remove the section that is "white" that you want removed.
> This will result in the irregular shaped newspaper article with the
> linen taking up the space of the section that you removed.
>
> Talker

Thanks Talker - it appears that is the best answer.
Duane