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Is there a way in Xara Designer to cutout a portion of a photo and not have a clipped photo, just the cutout portion? Everything I have tried keeps giving me a clipped photo. I have done this is the past but I can't remember if I used Xara or a paint program to do this.
Thanks
Ray
Can you be more specific what you are trying to accomplish?
You can physically remove a part of a photo and still have the photo remain a photo. Or you can use the Photo Tool > Select Colors to Enhance to edit specific colors and color ranges.
Make a clipped view then create a Bitmap Copy.Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane
Acorn
don't forget to adjust the bitmap copy dpi to match your clipped photo's dpi if this is not 96dpi [which is the copy default]
Ah, OK yes, True Color + Alpha.
However once you do that you lose the ability to edit the photo outside the clipped area. A clipped photo is in essence the same thing as a bitmap True Color + Alpha.
until you apply certain FX and various other operations, bitmap trace for example... then the program operates on the unclipped photo, it does not 'see' the 'masking'
What I am trying to do is do a bitmap trace of a portion of the photo so I just want to cutout that portion.
I will give Acorn's idea a try.
Thanks
Ray
bitmap trace will work best with high res image - not much point in increasing the dpi of the copy above that of the original, but important to make sure it is no less than
Sounds like the best idea Ray, then you can bitmap trace, however handrawn has a valid point.Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane
For a fuller cutout, you can use the Erase background button and then slice out you required image before making a Bitmap copy.
The Shape Tool is also a manual approach where you can then use that shape to punch out the wanted part and then Bitmap copy that.
Perhaps drop the image as a Zip to TGers here as a challenge?
Acorn
i do trace the bitamp, to get the exact outline of it.
with this path i do a clipview or whatever.
good bitmap tracer is inkscape. works with copy and paste.
reinhard
I hope you solved this, but reading the replies, I'm confused...you want to pull a portion of the photo out? Draw a line/shape over it then duplicate the photo and the shape, then use intersect and subtract. You should get two separate parts right next to each other. Just note that you'll now have a 'seam' to deal with.Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane
I'm not sure that's what you were after, but your initial questions seems to suggest 'pulling' something out of a photo, like it's scissored...forgive me if I read this wrong.
that results in two 'clipped' photos, because of xara's 'non-destructive' editing that allows you to go back, by unclipping the two parts
you need to make a bitmap copy so that you have a 'fixed' new photo if you want to use a routine that would just ignore the clipping - eg bitmap tracer
Hseiken
what I did was what handrawn suggested above. I clipped the portion of the photo I wanted and then made a bitmap copy. This way I could runt the bitmap tracer on just that portion that I wanted.
Ray