cropping images

[jimbodiver]

lo all ,
need your help here after many hours of frustration, I am trying to crop an image so that there is no background, but no matter what I do I always end up with a white box around the image ( the default background colour of this particular image )all I need is the object itself with either no background or if the box is still there then a transparent background. Have messed about with lasso tools etc to no end. Btw am trying to insert this into a word document.
A fairly detailed description of each step to take would be helpful as I am a chimpanzee when it comes to these types of things.

Best regards

jimbo[img]null[/img]

[jimbodiver]

lo all ,
need your help here after many hours of frustration, I am trying to crop an image so that there is no background, but no matter what I do I always end up with a white box around the image ( the default background colour of this particular image )all I need is the object itself with either no background or if the box is still there then a transparent background. Have messed about with lasso tools etc to no end. Btw am trying to insert this into a word document.
A fairly detailed description of each step to take would be helpful as I am a chimpanzee when it comes to these types of things.

Best regards

jimbo[img]null[/img]

[stephaniebt]

It's hard to know exactly what you're doing, but it sounds like you've made a selection of an object within the image and you want to save it with a transparent background. Once you make your selection, right click and Convert to Object. Then do F4 to open the Image Optimizer. Save the object as a transparent GIF so it is *not* merged with the base image. That works for building web pages. Whether this will show up as a transparent background image in Word, however, is something you'll have to try for yourself.

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[jimbodiver]

Thanks Stephanie, your reply was right on the money, no more banging my head on the wall, once again many thanks.
jimbo