White Box Around Scanned Photo
Nikki Van Velson
figure out how to remove the white
around an imported picture. If you say
"use the mask", well, I tried it. The
scanned drawing is of a flower, so how
can I mask it with a square? Or even a
wand? The detail is too intricate. Isn't
there some easy way to just say "remove
the white box?" Help. And help again!!!
Thank you so much whoever you are out
there. Also, I need SIMPLE directions. I
even have a video tape and can't figure
THAT out either.
e-mail me at: nik...@sierratel.com
Jan O'Brien
missing something here?
If you haven't tried this, select the cropping tool, draw a box around
the part you want to save and then double click inside the selection.
The white border will go away.
David
> Help! I've tried and tried and cannot
> figure out how to remove the white
> around an imported picture. If you say
> "use the mask", well, I tried it. The
> scanned drawing is of a flower, so how
> can I mask it with a square? Or even a
> wand? The detail is too intricate. Isn't
> there some easy way to just say "remove
> the white box?" Help. And help again!!!
> Thank you so much whoever you are out
> there. Also, I need SIMPLE directions. I
> even have a video tape and can't figure
> THAT out either.
> e-mail me at: nik...@sierratel.com
>
Can't you select mask the white space, and then invert the mask?
Nikki Van Velson
have a clue of what I'm doing. Here's what happened:
1. Went to CorelDraw. Brought up flower image bitmap.
2. Went up to a paintbrush which brought up Photopaint so I could remove white box
around flower. Clicked a button that said "convert to bitmap"
3. The image was now a square with checks, then a white transparency box and then my
flowers.
4. When I went to the Image button and then to "invert", the white box became black.
Another kind person suggested I use the cropping tool to crop the white space, but the
pointer tool won't allow me to select the box.
Where is the crop tool? I can't tell you how much time I've spent trying to remove this
white box. Thanks for your patience. Maybe
you could suggest something else.
-- Nikki Van Velson
e-mail: nik...@sierratel.com
Nikki Van Velson
someone else said to eliminate the white box (in Corel or Photo Paint), use the Color Mask.
When I brought up color mask, I made the top line in the box white, used 100%, applied the
eye dropper to the white space and while in edit it is still there, I can manipulate it
over other graphics and the box doesn't show, which was my objective. I have no idea why or
how it worked. Anyway, it worked, so thanks for your suggestions. -- Nikki
Nikki Van Velson wrote:
> David: Thanks for answering my "help" message. You are talking to someone who doesn't
> have a clue of what I'm doing. Here's what happened:
>
> 1. Went to CorelDraw. Brought up flower image bitmap.
> 2. Went up to a paintbrush which brought up Photopaint so I could remove white box
> around flower. Clicked a button that said "convert to bitmap"
> 3. The image was now a square with checks, then a white transparency box and then my
> flowers.
> 4. When I went to the Image button and then to "invert", the white box became black.
>
> Another kind person suggested I use the cropping tool to crop the white space, but the
> pointer tool won't allow me to select the box.
> Where is the crop tool? I can't tell you how much time I've spent trying to remove this
> white box. Thanks for your patience. Maybe
> you could suggest something else.
>
> -- Nikki Van Velson
> e-mail: nik...@sierratel.com
>
> David wrote:
>
Nikki Van Velson
who said to try the Color Mask in Coreldraw. While I fiddled around with
it a miracle happened (it worked), I have no idea how or why. Anyway, the
situation has resolved itself for now. Thanks for your help! -- Nikki
P.S. I have no idea how to use the cropping tool.
Jan O'Brien wrote:
> Why not just crop the white space with the cropping tool, or am I
> missing something here?
>
> If you haven't tried this, select the cropping tool, draw a box around
> the part you want to save and then double click inside the selection.
> The white border will go away.
>
David
box entirely...
My original suggestion was to use the "magic wand" to select all the white pixels, and then delete them. The wand finds all contiguous colours, and
there is a mask option to "grow" the mask to select all similar pixels, regardless whether they're touching the ones you initially selected.
You might also prowl through the help files. I'm certain that somewhere in the index must be some information on selecting colours, etc.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:30:39 -0800, Nikki Van Velson <nik...@sierratel.com> wrote:
> David: Thanks for answering my "help" message. You are talking to someone who doesn't
> have a clue of what I'm doing. Here's what happened:
>
> 1. Went to CorelDraw. Brought up flower image bitmap.
> 2. Went up to a paintbrush which brought up Photopaint so I could remove white box
> around flower. Clicked a button that said "convert to bitmap"
> 3. The image was now a square with checks, then a white transparency box and then my
> flowers.
> 4. When I went to the Image button and then to "invert", the white box became black.
>
> Another kind person suggested I use the cropping tool to crop the white space, but the
> pointer tool won't allow me to select the box.
> Where is the crop tool? I can't tell you how much time I've spent trying to remove this
> white box. Thanks for your patience. Maybe
> you could suggest something else.
>
> -- Nikki Van Velson
> e-mail: nik...@sierratel.com
>
>
> David wrote:
>
Keith Porter
paste onto whatever background you want. Also pasting into MS paintbrush
will make white area transparent, paint background or whatever and cut and
paste back to photopaint.
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