Kadifa…..
I think I’m not too clear on what you’re trying to do. Are you trying to select a part of an existing image within a circle and then save this as a new image of 8 x 8 pixels?
Colin
Hi Colin
I am trying to draw a circle the same size as a bullet point for example:
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So I started off by drawing a big circle and figured if I made it smaller that would give me what I wanted….but it does not appear to be as simple as that!
Kadifa….
Sorry I’m still a little unclear but maybe this will help.
If you have selected the ellipse tool, then on the Options bar (just under the menus) you will see next to the types of shape you can draw a small drop down arrow. If you click this you will be able to set some options for the shape you are trying to draw. So you can select Fixed Size and specify 8 px by 8 px. When you next click on your page it will make a circle in an 8 x 8 square.
Let me know if this helps
Colin
Hi Colin
That has worked a treat thanks….it appears it was quite simple!!! One more thing, I have saved the image as a gif on a transparent background, however I am also using the image on a coloured background and I can see some white round the edges. I know I can have two different images one with the background colour to match and one without but is there any way I can avoid this….i.e. one image which works on both a white and coloured backgrounds.
Hope this makes sense.
Kadifa
Are you sure you created the Gif with a transparent background. Could you see a gray/white checkerboard around the ‘bullet’?
How did you put the ‘bullet’ onto the coloured image?
Colin
Hi Colin
Yes there was a grey/white checkboard when I created the image and I drew the cricle straight onto that background.
The bullet gets onto the coloured background of the web page via CSS.
Kadifa
Not sure why you’re seeing the white line. You could try and select the ‘bullet’ and then feather the edge by 1/2 to 1 pixel to see if that softens the edge enough before you copy it to the final image.
Other than that I can’t think of anything else.
Colin
