I’m using Paintshop because my old copy of Photoshop wouldn’t work on this machine. Photoshop used to have a feature whereby one could create a path with the path tool, designate that path as a clipping path, and thereby wind up with an oddly-shaped picture that one could drop into a PageMaker file for, say, a catalog picture.
I need to do the same thing with Corel Paint Shop Pro XI, I’ve been doing just fine with dropping bitmaps generated in Paint Shop into a PageMaker template, but now I need to select a round area of a photo, clip it free and drop it onto a PageMaker template which will eventually be the printed area on a CD.
How do I make Paint Shop do this? Many thanks in advance.
I use Corel’s Photo-Paint instead of Paint Shop Pro, so I don’t know how different the tools are, but there’s an Ellipse Mask Tool in Photo-Paint that’d allow you to create a new object by copying-and-pasting it into the original document, a new document, or another program.
Again, not the same program, but I wonder if they might share some of the same tools seeing as they’re both now owned by Corel.
Ellipse mask? That sounds like it might work, if I can do a Select-Inverse on it to take only the stuff that was under the mask. Am I on the right track?
I may be entirely off base, but I think you’re asking about making an image with a transparent background - you want it to keep its odd edges, not fill in a colored background around them, right?
If so start the program, go to help, then search and enter the term “transparent.” The first topic should be “Working with GIF files” which will help.
Unless of course you have vista, which apparently, inexplicably, doesn’t support animated gifs…
I’m not sure if they’re the same thing. I don’t want an rectangular bitmap with the area between the edges and the art to be transparent, I want that area to not exist. Photoshop used to do this with clipping paths, which allowed me to drop the picture into PageMaker, which would then understand that it was to wrap text around the edges of the picture - not around a rectangular transparent area.