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I have a scan of a lineatic structure (like pen-writing), format .jpg.
It is a black line on a white paper (="background").
I would now loke to have this line *without* background – or, with a transparent background – in order to insert it "over" an existing image (like e.g. .pdf) just as the line itself, no white "field".
Quite a simple task, one should think. But I don’t make it!
In PSE (version 6), I can by means of the magic wand choose the white part of the image, and then "delete" it so that the "pied" workspace surface becomes visible. I saved this, but then, on inserting it elsewhere, the white field was back there!
I have tried hard in the online help to find out how, read on "transparency", but it didn’t get any clearer to me.
Have tried it as .bmp and .gif also, but no success either.
Maybe these things don’t work in PSE altogether? Would I need PS-CS for this (can’t believe it, though).
JJ
It is a black line on a white paper (="background").
I would now loke to have this line *without* background – or, with a transparent background – in order to insert it "over" an existing image (like e.g. .pdf) just as the line itself, no white "field".
Quite a simple task, one should think. But I don’t make it!
In PSE (version 6), I can by means of the magic wand choose the white part of the image, and then "delete" it so that the "pied" workspace surface becomes visible. I saved this, but then, on inserting it elsewhere, the white field was back there!
I have tried hard in the online help to find out how, read on "transparency", but it didn’t get any clearer to me.
Have tried it as .bmp and .gif also, but no success either.
Maybe these things don’t work in PSE altogether? Would I need PS-CS for this (can’t believe it, though).
JJ
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