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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Ummon on November 12, 2009, 05:53:53 pm
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I want to put the image attached on a shirt. I was able to find an app that could select a rounded rectangle. But then it saved it with the white corners still there. Everything else does, too. How the hell does one get rid of these?
Note: you can't see them in the box after clicking, because of the white background, but when I view the image in anything else, or have uploaded it to the shirt site, they show up.
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You can use the oval select tool in Photoshop, get it mostly right, then Select-Modify selection to tweak it. Then you crop.
Note that the actual text for "modify selection" may vary depending on what version of photoshop you have. the process is basically the same for any image editor that has that function.
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If you don't have photoshop use GIMP. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ (http://www.gimp.org/windows/) As pinballjim said, use PNG. Just make sure you have a transparent background.
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With Gimp:
Layer -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel
Then just magic wand the corners to get them selected.
Then go Edit -> Clear, and it's transparent.
Pic attached...
Ahhh. Thanks, I'll try it. I actually picked up GIMP yesterday, but had no idea how to approach this kind of thing.
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Hey, it worked. (I stole yours, just in case), although looking at the image in, for example Windows picture viewer, you can't tell, cos it still draws a border for the corners. But when I paste the image to the shirt designer I'm working on, it looks right. Excellent!
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With Gimp:
Layer -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel
Then just magic wand the corners to get them selected.
Then go Edit -> Clear, and it's transparent.
Pic attached...
Ahhh. Thanks, I'll try it. I actually picked up GIMP yesterday, but had no idea how to approach this kind of thing.
GIMP is a great program, I think you will really start to like it the more you play with it. Here is a really good resource to get you started with it. http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html) It was written for a much older version of GIMP, but I find it quite useful regardless.
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with photoshop you can select the corners with any selector (magic lasso, polygon lasso,etc,etc) then export transparent GIF/PNG
in the end you get the exact same results. I would have done it for ya, but Im stuck at work. One thing to remember is JPG doesnt support transparencies and while PNG and GIF do, PNG doesnt kill the palette
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with photoshop you can select the corners with any selector (magic lasso, polygon lasso,etc,etc) then export transparent GIF/PNG
in the end you get the exact same results. I would have done it for ya, but Im stuck at work. One thing to remember is JPG doesnt support transparencies and while PNG and GIF do, PNG doesnt kill the palette
I see. Never used photoshop or anything like that. Haven't had much need for this kind of thing. Just every now and then I come across something special where I have to step outside of my box to get what I'm trying for done.