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Can someone tell me how you get rid of the white space on a photo. I've erased the background in CorelDraw so I'm left with the image I want. Basically I want an outline of a person which I am pasting into powerpoint on a coloured background. However when I cut and paste the image from CDR there is still the white space around the outline of the person where the background used to be.
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Yeah, well I've got the whole suite of stuff, draw, paint etc. But yes, only Corel. I have Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady but am unsure how to use it!
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But going back to basics - Esmerelda, do you realise that you can't save a picture file which has a wiggly outline shape any more than you could save a Word document with a wiggly outline shape.
It's got to be a regular rectangle, so your cutout person needs to sit on a background whether it's a colour (as suggested by Darryn), a the original background pattern or clear (you can only do this with a gif).
Sorry to be patronisingly basic, but sometimes people get into a mess because they can't see the wood for the trees....
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Thanks all, and thanks OJ for explaining that basic step because that's exactly what I was trying to do - save a cutout wiggly silhoutte but of course kept getting the rectangle shape. Now understand that I colour the background.
Will try the transparent .gif as opposed to the jpeg I was doing
All this for a flipping Liverpool -v- Olympiakos pub advert.
quote:Originally posted by OJ: you can't save a picture file which has a wiggly outline shape any more than you could save a Word document with a wiggly outline shape.
Well, you can of course. It's called a clipping path and you can embed them in eps, tiff, jpeg, etc. And then there are alpha channels. But a bag'o'shite like Powerpoint refuses to understand any of them.
Your saviour is the png format. Put only the parts of the image you want to see onto a new floating layer in Photoshop and delete the background layer. Go to "save for web" (control-alt-shift-S on a PC), choose PNG-24 in the settings and make sure the transparency box is ticked.
When you import it into Powerpoint, you won't get the jaggies round the edge that you see with a gif.
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Thanks everyone - managed fairly successfully to do a nice piccie of Gerrard on a red background... not too bad for an amateur - but will definately try the tricks mentioned here and appreciate everyone's help.
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