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Post by RoadDemon on Aug 4, 2011 14:12:49 GMT -5
I had a question pertaing to cropping an image. My google-fu fails me.(probably because I suck at describing this particular issue)Any way I have an image that isn't perfectly rectangular. Now you cant see it here because of the white background. As another example here notice the black corners. In the first image I deleted the black and that only server to make it white... I would like to make the corners not there, transparent. any ideas?
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Post by riedquat on Aug 4, 2011 15:26:06 GMT -5
Do you want to make them transparent or just remove them? To remove them, the easy way is using the Pen tool (adding anchor points ) to create a custom selection and delete the entire zone, in my opinion is the best way to crop images clean from different sources; there are other ways to make the white transparent, but I think they are more complicated... If you suck describing, I suck explaining
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Post by ouch on Aug 4, 2011 19:30:34 GMT -5
in gimp just use the magic wand tool to select the background, (hold shift to select all the corners) go to layers->add alpha channel, press delete. And your done... Or you could just go to layers->color to alpha, select the color you want transparent, click ok, and your done... (this way might make things transparent that you don't want to be, if thats the case then select the magic wand tool, or any selection tool really, to create a selection of stuff you want transparent and then use color to alpha) Not sure why everyone thinks they have to use photoshop all the time... (especially when they don't know how to use it anyway... )
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Post by RoadDemon on Aug 5, 2011 8:56:41 GMT -5
Thanks Ouch, That did the trick. ;D And just for the record I am using Gimp. And I don't know how to exactly use it. I do fuddle my way through some of the harder things. I can do some simple things with it though. Including the (crappy) animated gif I am now using for my avatar.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 8, 2011 12:32:45 GMT -5
You can make the black part of the background transparent as already mentioned. You can make it the color of your background, which has the same effect of blending in.
You can also delete the black parts by selection little squares and deleting them. Keep making smaller and smaller selections until you've got it cleaned up. It's like using a paring knife to trim the fat off a steak.
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Post by Hammer on Aug 8, 2011 21:34:12 GMT -5
Or...you could take some white-out and paint it on your screen on the corners. Oh, wait.....sorry, I thought we were doing blonde jokes. The guys above got you the help you needed, so I just had to chime in. Speed and Greed on Titan! Hammer
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Post by Pilot on Aug 9, 2011 9:28:23 GMT -5
I will make one suggestion for you though, save your file in .png format, it is a little smaller and a little better at staying closer to the source images quality than .gif, png is can also be saved with transparencies, .jpg and .jpeg do not however.
I've tried photoshop and Gimp I have had less trouble learning (still learning) Gimp out of the two.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 9, 2011 10:57:02 GMT -5
I will make one suggestion for you though, save your file in .png format, it is a little smaller and a little better at staying closer to the source images quality than .gif, png is can also be saved with transparencies, .jpg and .jpeg do not however. I've tried photoshop and Gimp I have had less trouble learning (still learning) Gimp out of the two. Oh yes, Gimp is easier to learn. I'm trying to learn how to do some things in PhotoShop right now and I think I could learn how to digitally remaster the images in binary code easier.
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Post by riedquat on Aug 10, 2011 9:00:56 GMT -5
I will make one suggestion for you though, save your file in .png format, it is a little smaller and a little better at staying closer to the source images quality than .gif, png is can also be saved with transparencies, .jpg and .jpeg do not however. I've tried photoshop and Gimp I have had less trouble learning (still learning) Gimp out of the two. Oh yes, Gimp is easier to learn. I'm trying to learn how to do some things in PhotoShop right now and I think I could learn how to digitally remaster the images in binary code easier. ;D ;D Know how you feel, I've been using photoshop at the office for about 6 years, mostly to retouch product pictures for later publication on catalogues. I get used to work with psp 7, later when migrated to CS2 more or less it were always the same, in January migrated to CS5... to me it would be easier too to help you remaster them in binary... currently we downgraded again to version 7... and happy with it. Of course we always used the Free versions
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Post by cobra on Aug 10, 2011 13:30:41 GMT -5
Be careful about using transparencies especially with older programs, I assume you're applying this to something in Hardwar?
If it's a graphic for a webpage or someywhat, then transparency is probably the way to go, though.
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Post by Pilot on Aug 11, 2011 12:10:35 GMT -5
I would say that it is for a web page.
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