how to cut only image NOT background

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how to cut only image NOT background

obulldog27 (Programmer)

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13 Jul 04 18:05

I have a geographic map of about 5 adjacent counties. I want to save the map with out the background saving to it. Basically kind of like cutting out the map and when you open the gif file only the map would appear NOT a box with the map(image inside of it.

Thanks

http://www.geocities.com/oig01/HERE.png

obulldog27 (Programmer) · Answer 1 · 2004-07-13 18:30:22

this the correct link
http://www.geocities.com/oig01/

DaRNCaT (TechnicalUser) · Answer 2 · 2004-07-13 19:36:21

If it's in a gif formatt, and not in layers, you'll need to mask and remove the background- use the wand tool and the lasso tools to select the pixels you wish to remove, then edit>mask>hidemask, or reveal mask (dependant on if you selected the image you want to keep, or the colours you want to remove)

Save the image with a transparent background.
(you may need to clean up the image, and make sure you work on a copy of the image, so you can try out differnt settings- I tend to use anti aliais, or feather at 1 to keep the edges smoother)

Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..

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