cutting out a logo from white background

[handrawn]

well strange - now it does!!

must have had a rogue setting somewhere - that's a relief

this one useful way to apply transparency to vectors - so there is no need to turn noses up at bitmaps here

PS - think my confusion was to do with the way xtreme 5 now handles duplicates - more changes to the workflow

One thing for sure its no longer as straight froward - I'm going to have to revisit this afresh

[SmartEd]

I have to clip a LOT of images, I look after a catalogue of over 2000 images, I routinely move image's from Photoshop to Xara. IMHO If you want to clip an image quickly and cleanly it has to be the "Quick selection tool" in phs. It has saved me hours over the last couple of years, if I could use Xara to do it I would, but it's not really a job for Xara.

[iamtheblues]

...but it's not really a job for Xara.

I'd have to agree in this case. Not even the Vector Magic result passes muster. If the fonts are known, then I'd use Xtreme and do a hand trace.
As Sledger has said, it's routine stuff and a novice could get a result with a bit of practise with the Shape Editor Tool.
Saludos,
Bob.

[handrawn]

you know - I'm beginning to think I must have opened an xtreme 2 generated xar in xtreme 5 by mistake earlier on - I cannot get it to work again in xtreme 5 - darn

well I've no more time for it now - the attached does work in xtreme 2 at least..... and you can apply it to vectors

[Drwyd]

This is the method I use, I've no doubt it could be improved upon.

Drwyd

[handrawn]

Hi Drwyd

thanks

as that works in xreme 5 , why doesn't the other way... hum I shouldn't but I'm going to have to sort this out for myself here and now...

[Turan]

wow - never noticed the bitmap transparency thing!

But not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

I creaded a bitmap of a beveled orange star on a white background. Then cheated slightly by creating the black and while mask in bitmap form (from the vector).

But when I apply the black and white bitmap to the orange bitmap I only masks the white in stained glass transparancy mode - but in do this I get a slight tranparency to the whole image, as can be seen in the attached i.e. the yellow box is below the orange star with the B&W bitmap mask applied.

Am I missing something?

Turan

[Turan]

Sorry, in the time it took me to try it out - I'd missed Drwyd's excellent example - the trick is creating the bitmap in 2 colour depth (I have not looked yet, but it was probably mention above).

Turan

[handrawn]

you can take it up to 256 colors and it works

yes - thanks again Drwyd

it works in xtreme 2 with true colour + alpha mask [ie default bitmap copy setting] - reckon that is where I went wrong before

[Drwyd]

Glad I could help

Under some conditions a small fringe is left. To solve this the bitmap can be reduced in size by a couple of pixels before applying it as a tranparency.

Drwyd.