help with simple cut and paste?

Hi I am very new to all of this, i have watched the general tutorials and still can't figure how to cut and paste basic from a imported photo? not sure if i am explaing right but, i import a photo and just need the cabinet in the photo, how do i cut it out? any help would be amazing please :)
thanks
teya.

Welcome to TalkGraphics

I have moved your post to the Xara Graphics Chat forum. I deleted your duplicate post.

I think you are asking how to remove an object from a photo?

If so, you need to create a masking object, such as a rectangle, ellipse, or a more detailed object that covers just the portion of the image you want to isolate.

Then select the photo and the masking object and from the Arrange menu, select Combine Shapes > Intersect Shapes.

Then there's the olde tried and true method with the shape tool:

The video Steve posted is how I do it much of the time.

That video is a blast from the past.

Welcome Teya. Perhaps we're over-complicating the issue here (don't really know as I don't understand the "cabinet" reference. Just in case we are over-complicating the issue, here's a simpler way of getting part of an image only.

Well, with your example there Egg, it's even simpler than that. Just double-click the image and drag in the clipping handles until you're left with the crop area you want.

Strangly Steve I'm aware of clipping using that method but I rarely use it. I continue to do it the way i do, must be a hang-up from before the clipping tool was introduced :)

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Originally Posted by steve.ledger

Well, with your example there Egg, it's even simpler than that. Just double-click the image and drag in the clipping handles until you're left with the crop area you want.

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I had to check this out, That does indeed activate the clipping in the camera enhance photo, well I certainly learned something today. Thanks Steve. That only works for a simple rectangular object however, for a more complex shape you might have to resort to the method shown in video you posted.

Teya, does any of this help?

Egg had done another that shows cutting out an object and placing it on a different background. If I recall correctly it was also a cow placed on some kind of red hills landscape. I'll see if I can find that and view to see if that might help.

Thanks, yes I wasnt sure where i was supposed to post :/ :) .
thanks for the help i did what you suggested and it didn't quite work out, but after reading more threads i think i missed a step, I've done it now thank you. :)

A big Thankyou to Steve.ledger, Egg Bramhill and wizard509! Both the example videos was exactly what I was looking for, I was trying to use freehand region tool! lol let me tell you not only did it take forever but looked terrible haha. So thanks again really appreciate the help! :)

Of course, there's always the Background Erase feature in Designer Pro X10 that can semi-automatically "cut" parts out of photos...

Phil

Yes exactly - the Erase Background tool is specifically designed for this task of cutting objects out of photos!

@Teya - go to the Erase tool (4th button down on the main toolbar), select your photo and click the "Erase background" button on the InfoBar. It will take you through the steps required to cut out the object you want in the photo.

@Gary/Steve/etc. - is it just that you forgot about this tool or do you think it doesn't do the job well enough?

Thanks

Neil

@Neil,

Rarely do the photos I need to remove a background on lend themselves to using the background erase--and I can do a quicker/better job in a dedicated photo editor when it would be best. I find it too fiddly to use, or maybe its from too many years of using a photo editor and my little brain has difficulty in changing (this last bit is the most likely...).

But using Steve's tried and true method in his video is most often the quickest means of doing a good job on many subjects. Unless the subject is something one can just use the method Egg mentions and Steve follows up on, of course, but having a purely rectangular subject is rare in my case.

Mike

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Originally Posted by mwenz

@Neil,

but having a purely rectangular subject is rare in my case.

Mike

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Mine too!

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Originally Posted by NeilH

......or do you think it doesn't do the job well enough?

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This ^

NeilH, It does however it is still going to be rectangular the same as the photo. That is why learning how to cut out an image from it's background as shown in the video Steve posted might give superior results.

EDIT: Teya, glad you got it sorted out.