Different Shapes

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Craig Swanson
Sep 19, 2004
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I’m new to Photoshop, or any phot editing program. But I have a scan of a company logo. The scan includes areas around it I want to crop. No problem with a rectangle, but the sides of the logo are at angles, makeing the logo a parallelogram and I can seem to crop to its shape.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for any help.

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George Dingwall
Sep 19, 2004
Hi Craig,

Either use the Polygon Lasso tool to make the selection or use the Rectangular selection tool and then use Select / Transform Selection to display the control handles and then hold down the CTRL button and grab the adjustment handles and shape the selection to your parallelogram.

Hope this helps.

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:14:45 -0500, "Craig Swanson" wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop, or any phot editing program. But I have a scan of a company logo. The scan includes areas around it I want to crop. No problem with a rectangle, but the sides of the logo are at angles, makeing the logo a parallelogram and I can seem to crop to its shape.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for any help.

Bye for now,

George Dingwall

Invergordon, Scotland

www.georgedingwall.freeuk.com
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i.perryman
Sep 19, 2004
Very basic method

Assuming your logo is on a single (Background) Layer
Make a Duplicate Layer
Delete the Background Layer or make it invisible.
Use the ‘lasso’ tool to select the bits you want to remove one at a time (Left hand column -second from top)
Then choose Edit>Clear to remove each bit

This will remove unwanted bits but will not change the shape of the screen aound it (the canvas) – the rest of the layer will however be transparent if you keep it as a Photoshop file.If you save it as a JPEG you’ll get a white background.

There are other ways but without actually seeing the logo that’s probably the easiest to follow

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"Craig Swanson" wrote in message
I’m new to Photoshop, or any phot editing program. But I have a scan of a company logo. The scan includes areas around it I want to crop. No problem
with a rectangle, but the sides of the logo are at angles, makeing the logo
a parallelogram and I can seem to crop to its shape.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for any help.

EG
Eric Gill
Sep 19, 2004
"Craig Swanson" wrote in
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I’m new to Photoshop, or any phot editing program. But I have a scan of a company logo. The scan includes areas around it I want to crop. No problem with a rectangle,

Yes, that’s correct. Copping by it’s nature involves a rectangle.

but the sides of the logo are at angles,
makeing the logo a parallelogram and I can seem to crop to its shape.
Any ideas ?

Crop as closely as possible, then erase the additional details.

If you are needing the logo to be transparent against a background, that’s a whole seperate can of worms.
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Broga
Sep 19, 2004
"Eric Gill" wrote in message
If you are needing the logo to be transparent against a background, that’s a whole seperate can of worms.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if he replied " How did you know my company sells fish bait"

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