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I have a photo that has a solid color behind a headshot. The color is dark and the hair in the photo is not smooth. I want to remove all the color behind the picture and make it transparent so placing it on a website with a background will allow the background to surrond the headshot. I guess you call this a Mask? I'm new to Xara
If the image is not too big to post but a fairly good resolution I can try using my version of KnockOut for you. It is usually pretty good with hair when the background not complex.
OR, you may be able to download a trial version from www.corel.com. It will work from within XaraXtreme.
Alos do a search on this topic here in the forum as it has been covered so many times.
You can go out to the website and pullit down. http://lisadonovan.com/assets/images...omepg_copy.jpg
I will also go see that application since I have several of the corel tools like paintshop pro x
They don't have a trial version of Knockout and it's $99. Wonder if there is a cheaper tool somewhere. I do see that it will work with PaintShop pro as well as photoshop
I-ve seen it cheaper a few months ago. Maybe it was a promotion.
You might do look-see at www.unleashed.com
The quickest and best way is just to draw around the head - Select All -Arrange / Combine Shapes / Intersect Shapes
Egg
Quick and Dirty so probably not the best that can be done.
This was only a 96dpi image and there was a lot of compression garbage such that the pixelization was larger than the hair strands. You'd have to "Cut out' the bad areas per Eggs method or bring the image into a photoediting programs and erase out some the transistion areas.
Hair2 is with KnockOut effect removed and saved as a bitmap.
Wow you guys are the best....I did get a copy of the knockout tool and got it close but not as close as Hair 2 or Egg's. It takes some practice and it would have helped a great deal if the background had been white or anything but that dark color.
I need to go thru some of those tutorials and play with the toys. Always seems like I'm rushing to learn stuff for this project or that. I need a vacation to learn :)
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Educating yourself and experimenting with new graphics software is the name of the game (... and reading newsgroups).
this is by far the best method imho,may take 10-30 mins but its worth itQuote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
RonC