I've been using Scrapbook Factory Deluxe but trying out my PS Elements, CorelDraw 11 and Corel Paint Shop Pro and loving the process but..............what is the easiest way for me to cut one element out of the pages that I download that have a number of graphics on the page. I know how to crop and leave one but that is too time consuming. Must be a better way! Thanks for advise!

Hi Mims!

There are two ways you can do this in PSP X. Open your elements page as a new image. Select the magic wand, with Match Mode set to All Opaque and continuous. Click on the element you want. You should get the marching ants. Now you can just copy and paste into your layout.

The other method is the rectangular selection tool. Simply drag out a selection box aroudn your element of choice and then copy and paste into your layout.

HTH

Hi Mims!

In PSE you choose the rectangular selection tool, after making your selection, you can right click and choose Layer via copy and then you can move it onto your layout.

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in PSE, you can also use the lasso tool to draw an irregular shape around the item you want to cut out if it won't fit into a rectangle. This is a little more akin to taking a scissors to a sheet of cut-outs. Then grab your move tool and drag it onto your LO. It will look like it's removing it from your original sheet of goodies but it leaves it there and copies to your LO!

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Christine Smith

I use scrapbook factory deluxe and pain shop pro x. On your page of elements, use the rectangle selection tool to go around the element. Then click inside of the box, this changes your selection to fit perfectly around the element. Now you can copy and paste as a new image.

Just an fyi, I haven't been able to paste right into scrapbook factory deluxe from psp x. I have to save the image as a png file and then insert it into sfd. Otherwise you can't get rid of the white background.

There are step by step tutorials here:
PSE: http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_230.shtml
PSP: http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_235.shtml

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