i have an image with a white background surrounding it and i want to overlap it on another image. I need the white background to disappear. How to i go about doing this so the white background doesnt show on the overlapped image?
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i have an image with a white background surrounding it and i want to overlap it on another image. I need the white background to disappear. How to i go about doing this so the white background doesnt show on the overlapped image?
There are several options.
- Try the Mehdi Eraser that's available in the Live Effects tool.
or
- Apply a Stained Glass transparency to the image with the white background.
or
- Cut the image away from the background by drawing an outline around the image, then selecting the outline and the image and pressing Ctrl 4 (Combine | Slice).
Personally, I usually prefer cutting the image out. It doesn't usually take very long, and I feel I have more control over the elements.
How does Chris cut out the shape Alison? Does he use the Scissors Tool? :o
Gary
Assuming its not a vector why don't you just save it as a transparent GIF or PNG with the white set as transparent.
thats fine if the palette can be restricted to 256 colors, if not then Alison's methods are good :)
Gary are you splitting hairs? :D scissor tool in xara? :D :rolleyes:
if it is a bitmap - you can select it, then go to the bitmap gallery and highlight the same bitmap there and then click the gallery transparency tab
I prefer this to stained glass for removing white, as you can remake bitmaps from it without the color shifts stained glass sometimes produces
EDIT - but it will shift the saturation level so there again........ it all depends :rolleyes:
PPS
if you want to remove the white without the transparency/hue/saturation problems in one quick and easy way - try mehdi genuine eraser - you can download it free from their site
There is also the excellent Remove White plugin, the zip file is
available for download on the forum here. It works with Xara Live Effects.
Saludos,
Bob.