Cropping an image to a layer.

[gwpriester]

The simple answer is do it in Xara. It is so much easier.

I created a page to your size. Added a green square. Selected the square via the Magic Wand tool and cut it to the clipboard.

I created a new page and specified the background color transparent. Then pasted in place.

I'm sure I did this the hard way but I only use Photoshop as a pass through filter.

[pauland]

I might ( would ) agree it's easier using Xara, but I wanted to know the technique to use with just Photoshop!

I can accomplish the task, but there has to be an easier way than I can do it now.

One of the things that's frustrating about Photoshop is that while I can select the layer and the square, Photoshop won't even say how big it is.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[gwpriester]

You could layout and create the image in Xara, export it as a bitmap, and then edit the bitmap in Photoshop.

[pauland]

Gary, this is all about Photoshop - Xara specifically excluded!

The starting point here is an image sitting on a layer in photoshop, displaced from the origin, and the objective is to create a PNG of just that image, cropped to fit.

I am not creating the image, someone else is giving it to me.