Hello!
In a photo, I cut out an elliptical or round face.I saved the cutted image as .; "New from clipboard" No problem, the background is now transparent.
But now I want to make the edges of the oval or round image transparent.(then I want to put the result image on another image)
How can I make the edges transparent with Corel Photo Paint (or Corel Draw)?
//Jan
I think you may be working too close to the edge of your image. You may need to extend your image (canvas) size to provide more room for your selection.
Take a look at my attached video where I have plenty of room around my selected region. You can't see what I am doing because the screen cuts it off and I am using toolbar shortcut buttons...but I am doing the same steps I originally typed out.
If I use the original image, it works. - I got 100% transparency at the edges. (Great!)But if I try to cut off the actual area, I fail. (the original image is very large)
If I cut and use a piece from the original image, the alternative "Object>Create>From Background" is greyed (and I don't know how to add the new image to the background.)
Why it didn't work before (above).: I used a too small image to make it transparent at the edges.
Brian´s tip is more flexible as in Draw you can use only predefined “Vignette”. In Photo-Paint you can make a shape of clip mask as you need. Uploaded picture has white background as it is copy of screen, originally background is transparent (see attache piicture on red square). Best regards, Mek
Brian´s tip is more flexible as in Draw you can use only predefined “Vignette”. In Photo-Paint you can make a shape of clip mask as you need.
Uploaded picture has white background as it is copy of screen, originally background is transparent (see attache piicture on red square).
Best regards,
Mek
I know this is an old feed but it did help me out. I only have one question - After you have followed all of these steps is there a special way to save the photo so that the background "stays" transparent? When I try to save - a small window with options comes up for me to choose the "matte" and transparent isn't one of them. So is there a certain format I should be saving in? I keep trying to save it in JPG or PNG. Should I avoid these file types? I want them to be transparent so I can put them against any background I desire.
Saving photopaint files as CPT format is best because that preserves everything that you could possibly do in photopaint. If you need to give it to somebody else, you need a format that supports transparency.
PNG 24 bit and PNG greyscale should work. But I think there are some variants of PNG that do not.
JPG in any format will not preserve transparency -- it is not part of the JPG specification.