new bee needs help! : Intersecting a bitmap

**ANTERMITEMAN** · 22 May 2007, 11:24 PM

can not get a freehand crop to work with extreme pro.....need to crop a termite for some flash....did what movie said ????????

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 May 2007, 11:50 PM

Hi and welcome ANTERMITEMAN,

Could you explain in a bit more detail what you're trying to achieve? Perhaps post the termite. ( They don't object, their very versatile!)

**ANTERMITEMAN** · 23 May 2007, 12:06 AM

I have a picture of a termite with a black backround.....I need to cut the black out and just have the Termite.......I am trying out the free 30 day xara extreme pro......I do exactly what the movies say but I only get a black shape of a termite and not the termite....keith

**jamesmc** · 23 May 2007, 12:31 AM

Use Ctrl 4
instead of Control 2 (subtract)

And make sure the image you want to cut from is on the bottom layer.

**Egg Bramhill** · 23 May 2007, 12:34 AM

Okay Keith,

Try this. Open the attached xar file which is a bit of a mini tutorial. This hand tracing is very daunting to new users but is very easy to get up to speed with.