Creating round pics

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Sean_Lawless
May 8, 2004
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I’m looking or a way to ‘transform’ a square image into a round one. ie for cd labels etc. I realize I can select a round marquee and delete the inverse, but this is still cropping the image. Is there any way to stretch a square image to round one. I’m not worried about distorting the image.
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khankins
May 8, 2004
Why not draw a circle thta is 4.75 x 4.75 and place to fit to your CD label wrote in message
I’m looking or a way to ‘transform’ a square image into a round one. ie
for cd labels etc. I realize I can select a round marquee and delete the inverse, but this is still cropping the image. Is there any way to stretch a square image to round one. I’m not worried about distorting the image.
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Don_McCahill
May 8, 2004
All images are rectangles. If they appear round it is because part of them is colored the same as the background, or is transparent (in some formats).

To make a CD label, just do what you are suggesting, and print to a CD label material. Peel and stick. Don’t worry about the parts outside the circle.
GB
George_Beck
May 17, 2004
This worked for me: I wanted to use a globe in another application (MS Publisher 2000) and the globe was to be set against a colored background. But when it was copied into it, a square image of the globe was produced with a white corners around it although in PS7 the globe was against a transparent background when it was saved. The transparancy was not being transferred. I tried different file formats with the same result. However, the Gif format worked. Saving the file as a .gif and then importing it into Publisher 2000 with the colored background, only the round globe showed up this time without the white corners. But I do have a follow up question for anyone who may be able to answer it: instead of selecting a round object and erasing the background outside of it to transparancy using invert, does anyone know if PS7 can crop to the shape of any marquee and be saved in other file formats so that when it is imported into other applications it will retain only the shape of the marquee and not a rectangular one? (You see, I’d rather have the "globe only" in a different format from the .gif. when importing it.) If not, this would be a nice feature to have.
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LenHewitt
May 17, 2004
George,

ALL raster images are rectangular by definition. A raster image (in any format) is defined as ‘x pixels’ by ‘y pixels’.
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Mac_McDougald
May 17, 2004
It’s not so much what PS can do, it’s more dependent on what the app your putting the image INTO will support.

You can save your "round" image (rest of image is still "rectangular" but is transparent of course) as PSD or TIFF. Both will preserve transparency.

I don’t know what latest version of Publisher supports. I know my 2000 version of publisher won’t use TIFF with transparency, yet PowerPoint 2000 will (go figure). Neither accepts PSD (at least PowerPoint doesn’t, didn’t try Publisher).

Adobe InDesign support both transparent PSD and TIFF.
PageMaker supports neither, have to make a clipping path first in Photoshop.

As you have found, GIF very limited, only 256 colors max.

So you see, the really limiting factor is the application you’re trying to get the image INTO.

Mac
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George_Beck
May 18, 2004
Mac and Len,

Forums are great! Thanks for your input. Now, I have a much better understanding of what’s going on. Thanks!

George
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LenHewitt
May 18, 2004
You’re very welcome, George

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