Idiot looking for assistance….

[Tim Painter]

Emailed you Marcella

[Marcella Ross]

😀 thanks tim

[David Crocker]

Hi,

You could use the Magic Wand tool on Photoshop. Select it by hitting ‘W’ on your keyboard. then click inside the part that you want rid of>youll see a selection marquee open (moving dashed lines), then right click inside that selection and choose Layer Via Cut and youll see you white background goto another layer. in that layer you can either right click and delete it or drag it down to the little dustbin at the bottom of the layers palette.>then save as normal

I think thats what you want to do, however id be happy to do it for you if you get stuck! mail me if you do..

good luck 🙂
Dave

[Marcella Ross]

Dave,

I’ll give that a go!

Think I’ll wait until after I’ve got my cutting out of the way … and my lunch. Then I may be able to get my head in gear with this! 😀

[David Crocker]

no worries 😉

If you do have problems, mail me the jpg in question and say what needs to be deleted, then ill make a simple tutorial of what i did for any future events you might encounter…

😛

ttfn
Dave

[Peter Normington]

Marcella, Why dont you just do it in signlab? Use the vector tool to draw round what you want to keep, select the jpeg and the shape and just clip to get the required effect.

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

quote Peter Normington:

Marcella, Why dont you just do it in signlab? Use the vector tool to draw round what you want to keep, select the jpeg and the shape and just clip to get the required effect.

Peter

thanks Peter ……. ! 😀

[Rod Young]

quote Marcella:

I have been sent a jpeg of a customers logo…. not a big problem as it will be printed anyway. BUT, I want to remove the white background around it…… I also have another image which I want to use a part of and not the background.

1. In SignLab, double-click the jpeg to enter AccuScan editing mode.
2. Above the Palette button is the Target Colour.
3. By default, the Target Colour is white, though you can double-click to change that.
4. Now, with the Target Colour set to white, press [Ctrl] and left-click the Target Colour.
5. The white background of the jpeg will turn transparent.

Now, depending on the amount of compression, the jpegs may have some shading along the edges that were not set transparent. If so, then you are probably okay using the previous advice to set clipping lines around the edges.

Cheers,

Rod at CADlink

[Gary Hazard]

Hi Marcella

The I think the new upgraded "trace" feature in Corel X3 is
just the job for this sort of stuff.

If you want to post up the jpeg or email it over to me I’ll have
a got at it for you

Regards

Gary

[Marcella Ross]

thanks guys!

i did it in Signlab.
But I MUST learn to use photoshop 😕

Marcella

[Rod Young]

quote Marcella:

i did it in Signlab.
But I MUST learn to use photoshop

Marcella

As mentioned, use the Magic Wand tool, or for tricky jobs use the Quick Mask feature. Pressing the ‘ Q ‘ key will toggle the mode quickly.

Rod

[Nick Minall]

quote :

for tricky jobs use the Quick Mask feature. Pressing the ‘ Q ‘ key will toggle the mode quickly.
Rod

Can not seem to find this tool?

[Rod Young]

quote Nick Minall:

Can not seem to find this tool?

Marcella was asking about PhotoShop, so I pointed her towards a tool that she would find easy and useful.

Sorry to confuse you.

Rod

[Nick Minall]

ok, thought you meant SL Rod.

[James Martin]

Hi If the part you want to remove on the jpeg is quite even in tone and quality you could try the magic eraser( I had to look at how to spell erazor there).
one click to pick the tool and one click to remove the colour sometimes saves you a lot of sweat.