Re: Transparent backgrounds in Photoshop

[Rachael Lininger <techwhirl -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> wrote:

>Mike Jueneman wrote:

>> I'm having trouble making the background transparent
>> in Photoshop 7.0 (PC version).  I've tried deleting
>> the background layer and using the Help > Export
>> Tranparent Image function, but when I bring the images
>> into my desktop publishing program (PageMaker 7.0) I
>> still get the white box around the image. Any
>> help/tips would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>The transparent background is there. The white box is an artifact of the 
>way PageMaker displays preview images. 

I think that clipping paths work in Pagemaker. That's probably
what's wanted here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/7af2.htm

The way I tend to do these is:

Select the white background in Photoshop
Invert the selection (so it's your stuff that's selected)
Expand the selection by a few pixels
Save selection as a clipping path

Rachael

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