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Sep 14, 2005
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Hello All,

This is my first post to this board; hoping someone can help me with my attempt to digitize my product line. The pics will be used for point of sale and web based design.

So, here’s what I CAN do. I’ve been able to (using the magic wand and eraser) select the background (which was whiteboard) and essentailly delete it, so that all that’s left on the canvas is the image of my product. Now I can take this image and copy it and paste it and generally move it around, but I would like to save it on its own as a JPEG. This way whe I import it into other programs I don’t have the white canvas behind it, just the image of the product. This allows me to use the image on different backgrounds and even tectured backgrounds without having to touch-up the canvas colour in photoshop first.

This has to be simple to do, but I just can’t figure out how.

Thx,

Andrew

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roy
Sep 14, 2005
"Jill" wrote in message
Hello All,

This is my first post to this board; hoping someone can help me with my attempt to digitize my product line. The pics will be used for point of sale and web based design.

So, here’s what I CAN do. I’ve been able to (using the magic wand and eraser) select the background (which was whiteboard) and essentailly delete it, so that all that’s left on the canvas is the image of my product. Now I can take this image and copy it and paste it and generally move it around, but I would like to save it on its own as a JPEG. This way whe I import it into other programs I don’t have the white canvas behind it, just the image of the product. This allows me to use the image on different backgrounds and even tectured backgrounds without having to touch-up the canvas colour in photoshop first.
This has to be simple to do, but I just can’t figure out how.
Thx,

Andrew

Hi Andrew.

If you save it a tiff file,then do this.

1 click save as tiff

2 then click save

3 tiff options opens up, tick save as transparency

This then saves the image with a transparent background

Regards Roy
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Tacit
Sep 14, 2005
In article ,
Jill wrote:

Now I can take this image and copy it and paste it and
generally move it around, but I would like to save it on its own as a JPEG. This way whe I import it into other programs I don’t have the white canvas behind it, just the image of the product. This allows me to use the image on different backgrounds and even tectured backgrounds without having to touch-up the canvas colour in photoshop first.
This has to be simple to do, but I just can’t figure out how.

No, it is impossible to do.

The JPEG file format does not permit transparency. At all. It is not part of the file specification.


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Tim Rosencrans
Sep 15, 2005
On 2005-09-14 11:48:02 -0400, tacit said:

In article ,
Jill wrote:

Now I can take this image and copy it and paste it and generally move it around, but I would like to save it on its own as a JPEG. This way whe I import it into other programs I don’t have the white canvas behind it, just the image of the product. This allows me to use the image on different backgrounds and even tectured backgrounds without having to touch-up the canvas colour in photoshop first.
This has to be simple to do, but I just can’t figure out how.

No, it is impossible to do.

The JPEG file format does not permit transparency. At all. It is not part of the file specification.

It can be done with the PNG format but will not work with IE as IE doesn’t support alpha channels but will work with most other programs and browsers.

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