Curved and Diagonal Cropping, and Transparent Background

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Oct 26, 2006
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I’m going through the Help menus in Photoshop 7.0 to see if I can do this work there instead of in Corel 8. The help instructions often are not detailed. Eventually, I’ll figure it out, but thought I’d see if you can save me some time. Would you know the two-step procedure for:
1) cropping a graphic with a curved wavy edge that goes around to the
right then down (about 270 degrees) from upper left to lower left, then a diagonal along the left side from lower left to upper left; 2) making everything outside of the borders transparent, so I can layer this graphic on top of another, hiding (knocking out) what is underneath it? The shape will look like the top of a grand piano, with the keyboard on the left. Corel 8 uses nodes to make curved sides, and provides for diagonal cropping. I have not been able to find similar features in Photoshop 7.0, though I’m off again to the Help section right now. Thanks.
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Tony Blair
Oct 26, 2006
"Neil" wrote in message
I’m going through the Help menus in Photoshop 7.0 to see if I can do this work there instead of in Corel 8. The help instructions often are not detailed. Eventually, I’ll figure it out, but thought I’d see if you can save me some time. Would you know the two-step procedure for:
1) cropping a graphic with a curved wavy edge that goes around to the
right then down (about 270 degrees) from upper left to lower left, then a diagonal along the left side from lower left to upper left; 2) making everything outside of the borders transparent, so I can layer this graphic on top of another, hiding (knocking out) what is underneath it? The shape will look like the top of a grand piano, with the keyboard on the left. Corel 8 uses nodes to make curved sides, and provides for diagonal cropping. I have not been able to find similar features in Photoshop 7.0, though I’m off again to the Help section right now. Thanks.

You need the pen tool! and not a little skill in using it!!
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ronviers
Oct 26, 2006
Neil wrote:
I’m going through the Help menus in Photoshop 7.0 to see if I can do this work there instead of in Corel 8. The help instructions often are not detailed. Eventually, I’ll figure it out, but thought I’d see if you can save me some time. Would you know the two-step procedure for:
1) cropping a graphic with a curved wavy edge that goes around to the
right then down (about 270 degrees) from upper left to lower left, then a diagonal along the left side from lower left to upper left; 2) making everything outside of the borders transparent, so I can layer this graphic on top of another, hiding (knocking out) what is underneath it? The shape will look like the top of a grand piano, with the keyboard on the left. Corel 8 uses nodes to make curved sides, and provides for diagonal cropping. I have not been able to find similar features in Photoshop 7.0, though I’m off again to the Help section right now. Thanks.

Hi Neal,
You could try the Eraser tool with the sample set to discontiguous and a tolerance pretty low then set your foreground color to the color of your fancy edge. If you place a bright complementary color below the layer you’re deleting it makes it easer.

Good luck,
Ron
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Tacit
Oct 27, 2006
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"Neil" wrote:

Would you know the two-step procedure for:
1) cropping a graphic with a curved wavy edge that goes around to the right then down (about 270 degrees) from upper left to lower left, then a diagonal along the left side from lower left to upper left; 2) making everything outside of the borders transparent, so I can layer this graphic on top of another, hiding (knocking out) what is underneath it?

More information is needed.

Do you need to take your image that is curved and place it in another program, like a page-layout program? If so, you must use the Pen tool to put a path around the image, then turn the path into a clipping path, then save the image as an EPS–though, in truth, Corel is a better program for creating such images, as long as you save the image as an EPS.

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