Extracing portions of an image

[Acorn]

Hi. this is my very first post in the community So I'm learning the ropes of designer 10, and I can't for the life of me, figure out how to clip one area of an existing graphic, and delete the existing background.

The use case is this - I'm converting a JPG picure of a baseball to a vector image, and I want the background around the baseball deleted. What's the easiest way to do this? Is there a magic selection tool or something that would recognize the object as round?

It depends on how complex your image is and if you need to scale it afterwards.
For the simplest I can imagine, it is a circle.

If so, drop the image onto your design page.
Next create a circle (Ellipse Tool L - radius or diameter creation) to a similar size as of the baseball.
with the circle still selected, switch to Fill tool G - Bitmap) and select, from the fourth dropdown on the toolbar, your image.
Adjust and scale to fit.
Finally, you can use the Feather Tool to soften the edges.

It is a vector, with a bitmap fill, that might cover your need.

Acorn