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How do I get rid of the white background square that comes with every JPEG or GIF image? Can it be made transparent? I have painstakingly masked around an object, but there has got to be a better way. All help appreciated.
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Wish I was their I would show you but maybe I can help from here. Maybe you could just Crop the image with the crop tool and all you have to do is marque the picture and adjust it and when it is in the right place you just double click in the centre of the marqued selection.
Now another way is I Mask the area I want to save I then hit copy and then the area that I masked is now copied to the clip board. Now I go to FILE and then pick New From Clipboard and this gives me a new graphic on a transparent layer. Now this is cool because I then save this graphic as a .cpt and I can import this type of graphic into CorelDraw and it is a nice croped out image with no white box around it.
Now these thing work for me in CorelDraw 9 they maybe a little different in another version.
I hope I helped some and not confused U have a good day.
-------------------- Steve Eisenreich Dezine Signs PO BOX 6052 Stn Forces Cold Lake, Alberta T9M 2C5 Posts: 774 | From: Cold Lake | Registered: Mar 2000
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Hi Translab your way of doing it is fine for quick and dirty but it is not flawless I have found when it is done that way it actually leaves one row of white pixels down the right hand side of the graphic that you will need to hide.
-------------------- Steve Eisenreich Dezine Signs PO BOX 6052 Stn Forces Cold Lake, Alberta T9M 2C5 Posts: 774 | From: Cold Lake | Registered: Mar 2000
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Lottie, I LOVE PhotoPaint! Pay attention to the + and - symbols in the mask toobar, they are where some of the big power of the masks come from. The magic wand is great for selecting multiple white areas, by clicking on the + (also called 'additive' mode).
Another power feature of masks is the 'feather' mode, under mask/shape. By adding a couple pixels of 'feather' to a mask, you can lift a soft object like a face out of one part of a photo and put it on someone else's head seamlessly.
I am seriously impressed with what you can do with bitmap fills inside a masked area too. After you have an area masked, click on edit/fill, and load a bitmap texture of other image. Here is an image I tweaked for an amp building buddy of mine - the original photo was taken setting on a cluttered, burn-stained workbench. The nice woodgrain tabletop, the reflection of the knobs in the tabletop, and the acoustical foam in the background were all added using masks, fills, and the transparency tool (wineglass looking thing). I LOVE this program!
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every one has their own way of doing things
for folk who don't really want to play too much in photopaint here is 'my' simplest way of geting rid of the white box
I'm figuring that you are in the Draw screen and you have something like this
select the image with the white box and hit 'Edit Bitmap' from the Bitmap Menu
photopaint will open showing just the boxed image (look at the name of the file across the top of the p/paint screen, it's existing only in virtual space as a temp file)
1/ using the magic wand tool select the white area only (heaps easier that trying to mask the object)
2/ invert the mask so that it looks like this
3/ feather the mask, say 2-3 pixels (you may need to go more than that if the pic needs it)
4/ hit the Ctrl + Sift + UpArrow or in the Object menu, select 'Create from cut selection'
Now you have 2 objects... a white box and an image
Hit save and go back to the Draw screen where you will see the changes you made now relected in the original design
see the ungroup icon that suddenly appears when you select the top image again? thats because you now have 2 objects grouped together for transport
hit ungroup and delete the white box only
what you have left is just the 2 things you started with, a background shape and an image on top... but no white box!
we sometimes get so involved with looking at the image with it's millions of colours that we forget the white box has only 1 colour for us to mask
it's exactly the same when we need to vectorise a shape for profile cutting, routing out, whatever
instead of masking the very detailed shape you can just select the single background colour and save that to send to streamline, or corel trace
heaps easier for the programs to handle a 1 colour object... look at it like an O, it has an inside and outside edge
when you get the vectoised art back into the Draw screen just break them apart and delete the outside line
hope this helps
cheers gail
ps; sorry about the big pics folks... in a hurry
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In CorelDraw, you can remove the backround color with the "bitmap color masks.
Once you import it, select the eyedropper and sample the color right on the imported jpeg or other file you want to mask off. On the bottom of the roll up, there is a "tolerance" adjustment. If you slide it all the way to the right, it will completely remove the color and become transparent.
If there is white in the design as well, it will make that transparent too. The quick fix is to go into Paint, make the backround a totally useless color, and save it. Import the file, use the bitmap mask and adjust the slider to remove the totally useless color. All that will remain is the design you want, and you can layer stuff behind it.
Hope this helps... Rapid
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Mike O'Neill's reply, the first one, is the standard. So many people ask that Q in the Corel newsgroups, that it should be in the manual by now. Bear in mind, tho, that the box disappears only in the ,cpt format; if you save-as .jpg, it's back again.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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Thanks to everybody for your time and effort. I'll be trying out the different methods.
Gail - with pics and all, awesome.
Joe, your enthusiasm is contagious; I knew I could do more with it than just adjust contrast and brightness, that's what I want to learn. You're photo is incredible!
Hopefully, this helped a few others too. Thanks again.
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