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lizzilou · #1 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

It just feels like I should be able to figure this out but here goes...
How do I crop photos in a particular shape like a cicle or a star maybe??

Tracey R (Haley64) · #2 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

Hi, first make a duplicate of your photo image and save your original one. Then you can either choose a circle/rounded rectangle/square/star ect selection (marching ants) on your photo, using the right mouse button you can move your selection area to the correct area of your photo, invert your selection and then cut, this will leave you with the photo in the shape you want.
You can also do this with any preset shape that you have. Same steps just make sure you use your magic wand set to all opaque to select the preset shape, switch to your photo layer and invert then cut.
hth's

crecia27 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

One way - and probably not the best way because its a bit long .......
Select your preset shape tool
draw your circle - or whatever, this will make a Vector layer - convert it to raster
Select your magic want and double click on the outside of the circle to get the marching ants
Select your picture/background layer and press delete - should leave you with a circle cut out.

HTH

simplyred · #4 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

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Originally Posted by Haley64

using the right mouse button you can move your selection area

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this!!! I was sure there had to be a way to move the selection area without moving the selection itself. Thank you. I would offer you my firstborn, but at 63 I don't really think there's much chance now that there's going to be one.

Seriously, this is a great tip even without the other information.

How nice to see some PSP discussion. Everything seems so tilted toward PS that sometimes I feel a little left out

. There is so much that PSP will do and so much that I don't have the faintest idea of how to do. The store bookshelves are covered with "How To" books for PS, but no PSP books.

Keep those tips coming!!!

crecia27 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

Rt click - who'd have thunk it! What other great tips do you know?

Someone else asked in another thread - if I have a shape on one layer - and a paper on the layer above it, can I make the paper take the shape of the shape?

I know thats possible in PSE and it is really cool -

lizzilou · #6 (**permalink**) 08-09-2006

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Originally Posted by Haley64

using the right mouse button you can move your selection area to the correct area of your photo, invert your selection and then cut, this will leave you with the photo in the shape you want

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! The only thing I didn't quite get was when you are moving your 'selection area' are you actually moving the marching ant frame or the photo itself? I couldn't get the 'marching ants' to move, but i moved the photo beneath it, which I suppose works just as well.??
Either way...thank heavens...now I can do something other than squares and rectangles! lol

simplyred · #7 (**permalink**) 08-09-2006

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Originally Posted by lizzilou

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! The only thing I didn't quite get was when you are moving your 'selection area' are you actually moving the marching ant frame or the photo itself? I couldn't get the 'marching ants' to move, but i moved the photo beneath it, which I suppose works just as well.??
Either way...thank heavens...now I can do something other than squares and rectangles! lol

In PSP8 (and maybe the other versions but I work in 8), you select the area, then you change to the move tool (the 4-pointed arrow) and when you right-click and drag, the marching ants will move - while the picture, layer, whatever, remains stationery (stationary?

). I've wondered for a long time why you couldn't move the selection area (marching ants) in PSP and it made me happy, happy to find out you can!!

Tracey R (Haley64) · #8 (**permalink**) 08-09-2006

First it is LEFT CLICK in any version of PSP9 and earlier, why Corel changed this for PSPX I have no idea.

ROFL SimplyRed at 42, and a mother to 4 kids myself, I really have no need or desire to have your first born (unless he is really cute and close to my age!! LOL) Glad the right click helped you out. Yes many times I feel that we are left out of so much since we use PSP. But you have to remember that Adobe controls about 70% of the Digital Program Sales between PS & PSE. Yes they have a lot of info but I can find anything I want (INFO) for PSP just by searching on google. Just the thread that Amy started got me to looking and clicking through links and links and I ran across a bunch of new PSP sites and many I had never seen before.
Now I have trouble finding back the info I need when trying to respond and give advice her in the forums.

Crecia, yes you can make any shape filled with any paper image/pattern/texture you have.
You can't make a 12x12 paper take on a shape of say a large circle as image programs only work with images on a square or rectangle image. So you would always need to have a background color...does that make sense?

You can take your paper and basically make any matching element from it, a button, a ribbon, a frame, or a shape.
Another way to do this is have your paper image open and then with your bucket fill tool, select the paper image in your pattern Material Palette and then you can fill any shape that you want.
BAsically just do what you said above in your post and then before you cut, invert your selection and that will leave you with a paper filled shape. You also do not need to convert your vector to a raster layer to use the magic wand on it...

WE can do anything and they can do in PSE, we can do more things we just have to adjust and learn how to do them in PSP but it is all possible.
I have forgotten more about PSP then I know right now, I have used it since version 3. But now I use it in ways I never used to and I am loving every minute of it. Maybe because I have used it so long, I know how to take knowledge in tutorials that are 7+ years old and figure out how to use them with todays ideas for digital scrapbooking. Like back when PSP was great for creating gel buttons for web page designs, man they look really cool when used as the gel elements we now see. AND it was PSP that created tubes (PNG files basically) years and years ago. And now look what can be done with tubes. I have more flower tubes then I can shake a stick at, but now I am working on making all my tubes at 300ppi for scrapbooking needs. Hopefully in the future Corel will understand that we are not just using PSP to create web designs at 72ppi and will give us greater pixel widths for the brush option, inner bevels and some of the other tools.

Lizzilou, no you should be able to move your marching ants and it should NOT move your background photo. I am using my selection tool set to Mode:Replace, draw out my selection (marching ants) RIGHT click within my selection and hold the botton and drag your marching ants....If you are using PSP9 and earlier, use your LEFT MOUSE button!!
let me know if this works for you...
I have never had to switch to the MOVE TOOL to move a selection like simplyred said??
When I select the Move tool, I still move the selection with the right mouse button, if I use the Pick tool it makes a new layer with the original area of my selection and I can't choose the area I want to select anymore...

OK sorry for rambling girls!! Just having fun on my end and talking!! LOL