Quickest way of drawing around this shape?

[Kev Mayger]

Just the outside shape? If so it’s just a circle and rectangle welded together.

Kev

[Nick Minnery]

Hi Kev, sorry no. I want that image but without the white area, that makes up the rectangle.

Probably not been clear enough there.

[Kev Mayger]

Weld the circle and square together and use it as a mask.

Kev

[Graeme Dingwall]

Yep I agree with above circle and square welded together and place image inside container using powerclip 😀

[George Zerbino]

Select all, then go "arrange/shaping/boundary" on the menu.
This will create a single line around the outer edges.

Regards
George

[Glen Mathers]

quote Kev Mayger:

Weld the circle and square together and use it as a mask.

Kev

Exactly as i would do it, i’ve just done it but the file is too big to attach, the max file size is 700kb

[Nick Minnery]

Apologies, I don’t understand the ‘use as a mask’ bit 😳

Take a look at the attached, the 2 logos need to overlap, but I need to remove the white from around each one….

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[Jamie Wood]

A mask would be the shape of the circle, and the rectangle below, combined (or
welded) together to make a single shape. This would then be placed on top of your image, and used as a mask, meaning that you would only see what was enclosed within that shape. Anything outside the shape would be masked, and not seen.

[Nick Minnery]

Sorted! Thanks for everyones help.

I used the ‘Bitmap Colour Mask’ tool, used the eyedropper to select ‘white’, and the surround was gone. It also took away some white from the main image (made it transparent) but I just adjusted the tolerance and it was perfect,

The problem with using a basic mask, was that I had to overlap two images, so I couldn’t really do it that way.

Thanks again

Nick

[Alex Crosbie]

If only I’d seen this earlier! I have the vector version of these for a client of ours.

We put a cut contour around the shape using a mask / powerclip as discussed earlier.