[chadfree] Re: Photo program question

Thank you Rene, I'll give it a try.  It does seem to me that this should be
something that is in most photo programs but that I just can't/couldn't
figure it out.  In Infanview it did delete the background but when I saved
the picture it wound up having a white square background.  So I was afraid
that would happen with the Photo Shop too.  In Photo Impression, I could cut
around the picture but when I click either "cut" or "crop" it deletes the
picture instead of the background!  LOL!  So I figure I am just doing things
wrong.

I'll try saving the picture with the grey and white checks and hopefully
I'll have no background.

Thank you!

Peggy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "-{ Rene Brehmer }-" <metalbunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <chadfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: [chadfree] Re: Photo program question


> Peggy ... the grey and white checkers actually means "nothing" ...
> understood literally that when you delete part of the image and the
> checkers show up, there really isn't anything there but nothingness ...
> it's a common indicator in the graphics programs to use the checkers to
> indicate "nothingness" or more accurately: transparency...
>
> Other programs may actually delete the background as well, but default to
> painting it over with a different, solid, color ...
>
> I'm used at Corel Photo-Paint and Adobe PhotoShop myself ... And Corel
> (atleast till ver. 7 - haven't tried with my new ver. 12) uses the color
> background, while PhotoShop uses the checkers (that's actually where PSP
> has copied that feature from) ...
>
>
> HTH
>
> Rene
>
> At 05:48 18-04-2004, you wrote:
> >I'm hoping someone can help me with this.  I have a gazillion photo
> >programs - some I'm just trying out, some I have.  What I want to be able
to
> >do is cut around an object in a picture and delete the background.  I
have
> >Infanview and that lets me do that but what it does is replace the
> >background with a white background.  I want the whole background to
> >disappear.
> >
> >I have a trial of Photo Shop Pro and I can do it with that too, but it
gives
> >me grey and white checks where the background used to be.  I also have
> >ArcSoft Photo Impression, and Microsoft Photo Editor.  Last night I
> >installed and uninstalled at least ten different photo editors (freeware
or
> >shareware).  Included in that list was: Oriens Enhancer Gold; Serif 3D
plus;
> >VCW VicMan's Photo Editor; Image Analyzer; Image Forge; Image Enhance -
and
> >a few more that I don't remember.
> >
> >Now, it seems to me that this should be a simple thing to do and I'm just
> >too stupid to figure it out.  So if anybody can help me with this, I
would
> >be more than thrilled!!
> >
> >Thank you!
> >
> >Peggy
>
> -- 
> Rene Brehmer
> aka Metalbunny
>
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>
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