Crop picture to circle not square

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:33:43 -0500, Dude Harry wrote:

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

Select all/Select Eliptical Marque. Hold down ‘alt’ and expand circle from the center and out – to shift selection hold down spacebar. You then set the pointer to the selection outside the circle and with white background you hit delete. You have the choice of feathring the selection. Keep trying it works well.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

In Photoshop , use the eliptical selection-tool and mark a circle around what you want to crop ( click with shift-key pressed to get a exact circle) Under edit click "copy". under file click "!new" and change background content to "transparent", edit "paste",,, and you have your circlecrop h

Hi Dude,

Have any of the previous suggestions worked?

Here’s how I’d do it:

Select the area you would like to crop by placing an eleptical shape over it.

Select the shape in the layers pallet and set its opacity to 0%.

Select the Paths tab (at the top of the layers pallet).

Click on the third option at the bottom of the paths tab (if you hover over it it should say Load Path as a Selection).

The circle should now be a flashing marquee.

Now select: Edit > Copy Merged.

Now open a new file and select: Edit > Paste.

That should do the trick.

Regards,

Sonars UK
"Dude Harry" wrote in message

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

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"P.H. Stuken" wrote:

In Photoshop , use the eliptical selection-tool and mark a circle around what you want to crop ( click with shift-key pressed to get a exact circle) Under edit click "copy". under file click "!new" and change background content to "transparent", edit "paste",,, and you have your circlecrop

Wow, that’s a clumsy and unnecessarily complicated way to go. Generally speaking, any time you are using copy/paste in Photoshop, there’s a much simpler way to do it.

Use layer masks! Make your selection. Turn the picture into a layer by double-clicking on it in the Layers palette. Save the selection as a layer mask. No copy-paste or new document necessary.

However, whether this will work for print depends on what program is being used as the page-layout program for the magazine. If Indesign is being used to do the magazine, it will work fine; the background will be transparent. If another program is being used to do the magazine, then it will not work; most page layout programs can not handle a transparent Photoshop file.

So with other programs, you make part of a picture transparent by using the Pen tool to draw a path around it, then using the Clipping Path command to amke the path a clipping path. Then save the picture as an EPS or TIFF. (Note that an EPS will only print correctly to a PostScript printer.)

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In Photoshop , use the eliptical selection-tool and mark a circle around what you want to crop ( click with shift-key pressed to get a exact circle)
Under edit click "copy". under file click "!new" and change background content to "transparent", edit "paste",,, and you have your circlecrop

Wow, that’s a clumsy and unnecessarily complicated way to go. Generally speaking, any time you are using copy/paste in Photoshop, there’s a much simpler way to do it.

Use layer masks! Make your selection. Turn the picture into a layer by double-clicking on it in the Layers palette. Save the selection as a layer mask. No copy-paste or new document necessary.

However, whether this will work for print depends on what program is being used as the page-layout program for the magazine. If Indesign is being used to do the magazine, it will work fine; the background will be transparent. If another program is being used to do the magazine, then it will not work; most page layout programs can not handle a transparent Photoshop file.

So with other programs, you make part of a picture transparent by using the Pen tool to draw a path around it, then using the Clipping Path command to amke the path a clipping path. Then save the picture as an EPS or TIFF. (Note that an EPS will only print correctly to a PostScript printer.)

complicated? ,, 🙂 I dont think yor metod is easier to do, layer masks is not the easiest for beginners,
,,, but there are many ways to do this
h

"Dude Harry" wrote in message

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

when you say crop OR CONVERT to a circle
do you want the image distorted to FIT into the circle?
B/C that is quite different from the crop suggestions you are getting I downloaded an action that morphs the image into a sphere at Adobe Exchange

In article <uVFUf.2652$>,
"KatWoman" wrote:

"Dude Harry" wrote in message

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

when you say crop OR CONVERT to a circle
do you want the image distorted to FIT into the circle?
B/C that is quite different from the crop suggestions you are getting I downloaded an action that morphs the image into a sphere at Adobe Exchange

When you highlight the picture with the marquee tool, select Inverse then Delete.

This will give a round picture within a square canvas – there will be nothing beyond the selection. Dropping this square canvas onto the collaged front cover won’t cause any problems as long as you place the layer correctly. You can’t have a round canvas (or any other shape except those with 90 degree corners.

Stewy wrote:

In article <uVFUf.2652$>,
"KatWoman" wrote:

"Dude Harry" wrote in message

Hi. I have adobe photshop 7 and paint shop pro 9. I have a picture that I want to crop or convert to a circle for an effect on a cover of a magazine. I want the picture to be like a logo, so a round picture would be better. The crop tools in both seem to only crop to a square. The eliptical marquee tool in photoshop will draw a circle around the object in my picture I want, but when I say "crop" it crops the square picture to the borders of the circle. How can I crop or convert a square picture to a circle. Is there a program or plugin that can do this. I guess it is like making a button from the picture but I do not see any plugins or effects to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply here.
Thank you in advance.
Dave

When you highlight the picture with the marquee tool, select Inverse then Delete.

This will give a round picture within a square canvas – there will be nothing beyond the selection. Dropping this square canvas onto the collaged front cover won’t cause any problems as long as you place the layer correctly. You can’t have a round canvas (or any other shape except those with 90 degree corners.

Glad you chimed in, Stewy. After reading all those… well, "shooting rabbits with howitzers" suggestions I was wondering if anyone was going to suggest the quickest, most straightforward method–selecting the area of interest, inverting, then hitting delete. Granted, sometimes I become so enamored with all the tools that I take the long way around myself, but this one seemed so obvious at first reading that I kept clicking through the replies wondering when someone was going to get around to saying, "The short answer is… "

OTOH, if the OP tries all that other stuff he’ll undoubtedly learn more about PS than he knew going in, so none of it was wasted.