Hello, I am a brand new photoshop user, having just purchased Photoshop 6.

I am trying to cut shapes from photos and export them to page layout programs and Xara (which I use a lot to lay out pages)

The problem I am having is that even though I cut out a figure and save it as a .tiff file, when I import the file into another program I still get a background colour when I want transparency!

I have been working my way through the manual and think saving my selections as a clipping path may be the answer.

Firstly can anybody tell me how to do that and secondly, would anyone be able to tell me if this is the answer to my problem or suggest another method to just export my shape with no background.

Thanks in advance. J