pictures wrapping extracted pictures

:::: Using Photoshop 7 and PageMaker 7

I’m kind of new to this game, but I am working on putting a newsletter together and want to wrap a photo around another photo which is actually

extraction of a boy on a bike, so the shape is irregular. I have no

wrapping the text around the extracted photo, but am getting no-where

to make another picture wrap around it. When I place the extracted photo over another picture, instead of wrapping around the irregular shape, it acts like there is still a background there. A friend of mine said he

Photoshop 4 to do this cuz 7 is a pain, … .but I can’t believe this

be done in 7.

I have also tried (after extracting the part of the photo I want), when it is on the checkered background, using the Magic Wand, Select/Inverse …. Path/Make working path ………save path. I have also tried flattening

image after this and that doesn’t work either. When I go to PM 7 and

and put the image in the document, I can then adjust text wrap to what I want it to be, and again, the text will obey, but any other pictures will not.

Frankly, I’m not really sure if this is a Photoshop issues or a PageMaker one, or both. I do know that I saw my friend do this in Photoshop 4, take it to PageMaker 7, and it worked just fine. Is this just a quirk of PhotoShop 7?????? Will CS have this trouble.

Thanks for any help,
larry

:::: Using Photoshop 7 and PageMaker 7

I’m kind of new to this game, but I am working on putting a newsletter together and want to wrap a photo around another photo which is actually an extraction of a boy on a bike, so the shape is irregular. I have no problem wrapping the text around the extracted photo, but am getting no-where trying to make another picture wrap around it. When I place the extracted photo over another picture, instead of wrapping around the irregular shape, it acts like there is still a background there. A friend of mine said he uses Photoshop 4 to do this cuz 7 is a pain, … .but I can’t believe this can’t be done in 7.

I have also tried (after extracting the part of the photo I want), when it is on the checkered background, using the Magic Wand, Select/Inverse …. Path/Make working path ………save path. I have also tried flattening the image after this and that doesn’t work either. When I go to PM 7 and CTRL^D and put the image in the document, I can then adjust text wrap to what I want it to be, and again, the text will obey, but any other pictures will not.

Frankly, I’m not really sure if this is a Photoshop issues or a PageMaker one, or both. I do know that I saw my friend do this in Photoshop 4, take it to PageMaker 7, and it worked just fine. Is this just a quirk of PhotoShop 7?????? Will CS have this trouble.

Thanks for any help,
larry