The trouble resulted only because of one thing, if you do not promote your background layer to a full layer, you will get a substituted color for whatever you have your background color set to in your Materials Palette. Some effects in PSP are limited to full layers and not to the background. Often if an effect is not working right, promoting to a full layer will solve the problem you are having. It is a good idea to duplicate your background layer and promote the duplicate to a full layer before you do a deletion of the image background you are eliminating. Also, if you make your selection and you want it to be more subtle when used over another color, feather your selection by about 3 to 5 pixels before you hit delete and you will be much happier with your result. The same trouble exists if you use Photoshop or PhotoImpact. You must have a transparent layer underneath to show transparency when you hit the delete key.
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Sally M. Bode
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