Cutout a portion of a Photo

[RKissane]

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

[gwpriester]

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.

[Acorn]

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

Make a clipped view then create a Bitmap Copy.

Acorn

[handrawn]

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]

[gwpriester]

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.

[handrawn]

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'

[RKissane]

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

[hseiken]

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

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.

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.

[handrawn]

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

[RKissane]

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