Cutting Out a picture

**molucca** · 12 September 2006, 01:54 AM

There are several ways to make a selection. There is a magic wand tool. You can set a tolerance and wheter the selection is confined to where you make the selection, or select over the entire image. Maybe a good choice.

Auto Select is under the Select menu.

In either case, you may need to manually erase the edges of the image. If your image is on a transparent background, you should be able to erase to transparency.

You might be able to select and erase what you have already done. Say you select the additional white areas. Then delete them of erase. Erase would be confined to the selection. Ctrl D removes the selection.

Rich

**Mike Bailey** · 12 September 2006, 10:30 AM

Just use the lasso to select the area of the picture you want to use. Then press Ctrl+C to copy the selection, Press Ctrl+V to paste it back into the picture. Thats all you have to do.

**molucca** · 12 September 2006, 07:23 PM

An example with the magic wand. I needed to remove part of the selection, and I did that with the lasso tool.

If you draw a selection with the lasso tool, and it doesn't fit well, you can modify the selection using the shift and alt keys.

Rich

**Jinny Brown** · 13 September 2006, 01:27 AM

Hi,

Before trying to follow them, read through these steps carefully as one of them is something you probably don't want to do and the reasons are explained in that step (Step 3).

1. Select the image you want.

2. Use Ctrl/Command+C to copy the selected image.

3. Use Edit > Paste into New Image and your pasted image will be on the new image's Canvas with a white background (this sounds like what you don't want to do).

4. Instead of using Step 3. use Ctrl/Command+V and your selected image will be pasted onto a new Layer with a transparent background. Everything below that new Layer will be visible through the transparent parts of the Layer.

5. To verify that the Layer actually does have transparency around the selected image, close all other Layers' Eye icons and close the Canvas' Eye icon. Now you'll see your selected and pasted image above a checkerboard pattern that's only visible when all other Layers and the Canvas are made temporarily invisible by closing their Eye icons.

TIP: Corel Painter's Canvas is always opaque and cannot be made transparent.

**Judi A** · 13 September 2006, 05:06 PM

I find fiddling with lasso tool very frustrating. I think it is easier and more exact to create a mask on the part you want to cut out, go to Edit/Cut then Edit/Paste in place and you will have a transparent layer

**quangle** · 31 January 2007, 03:11 PM

press f (the layer adjustment tool appears) click in the lasso area.
once you've done that the lassoo goes away and look on your layers pallet the sellection has just got it's own new layer .
Now if its the bit round the edge you dont want,
a, put you curser on the layer of the pic you have seleted the youlle keep, keep it down and slide it up the layers pallet till you have it in any possition you want.
b, now the crap round the edge is still there on its own layer, delete it.
( check whats on your layers before deleteing)