About Free Plug-Ins

[DocRock]

Disregard previous request for help - posted a bit too soon. The plug-in was actually in my XPro5 under the plug-in icon which I have never used before.

Unfortunately the eraser feature doesn't do a very good job on removing the white backgroun of my jpg photo. I tried many iterations and still have jagged edges on the object in the photo. Are there other tools for swapping colors?

[handrawn]

hi

can you post up the image?

click on the 'go advanced' button bottom right of the reply box and then scroll down and click on 'manage attachments' to upload

you can preview the post to check it worked

[DocRock]

Here it is and preview worked.

[handrawn]

Ah still with the riding crops...

in this particular case I'd give it a stained glass transparency and then make a bitmap copy [checking true color + alpha is set as colour depth] if you get warnings just click continue

colour shift is sometimes a problem with this method - but not here as far as I can see

[DocRock]

Thanks, Steve. Works as advertised and the background is transparent but still not completely there. The whip color needs to be white. Changing both contones to white made the whip image disappear. What is the next bit of magic I need to perform?

[handrawn]

ah now you tell me - since you've embedded stained glass transparency into the bitmap - you cannot now contone it white

so, go back to your original jpg and invert the image by setting contone light colour black and contone dark colour white

then as before but using bleach instead of stained glass..

[the effect the transparency types have on contoning is one reason for the warning]

[DocRock]

Yep - still with the riding crops. using bleach and changing the contones did it. Many thanks for sticking with this to help.

[handrawn]

pleasure

[Soquili]

Hi DocRock,

Web Designer does not support the Live Effects offered in Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer (and Xtreme Pro versions).

EDIT: Should have noticed more posts after the one I was replying to