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    Posted by Brian Little on 20 March 2012 at 16:35

    Hi is there anyway that the square box round a bit map can be made to look clear/invisible so that if you have for instance a profile of a vehicle on the screen and you want to place an image on the vehicle for proof purposes . I thought if i selected it with the magic wand and perhaps went to clear in the pallette that it would work but no joy >I know it can be done in photoshop but it was just to save pushing files into other programmes

    Regards Brian

    John Harding replied 13 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  • John Harding

    Member
    20 March 2012 at 16:42

    can be done in most programmes – for proofs etc a quick trace/create an outline then you can mask in flexi or powerclip in corel etc to achieve what you want

    John

  • Brian Little

    Member
    20 March 2012 at 17:07

    hmm ill have to do a bit of reasearch and development there john but thanks

  • John.MacDonald

    Member
    20 March 2012 at 23:33

    Can be done in Corel as well. Using the colour mask tool

  • Brian Little

    Member
    21 March 2012 at 09:18

    hmmm im still struggling with it guys. i can change the background to a differnt color after i highlight it with the wand but still cant seem to make it transparent

  • John Harding

    Member
    21 March 2012 at 10:05

    what programme are you working in??

  • Brian Little

    Member
    21 March 2012 at 11:22

    Flexi pro john

  • John Harding

    Member
    21 March 2012 at 11:45

    magic wand click on background area dotted lines appear round object and edge (adjust tolerance if necessary)
    from the bitmap dropdown select invert selection
    then again from the bitmap option convert marquee to shape
    select both objects then from the arrange dropdown select mask
    hey presto

    John
    😀

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