cutting off a corner

[The Grons]

Hi All;

I am starting to see pictures of people on the news and sports channels. their photo has an outline and the upper right corner is cut off with a 45 degree angle. Do you know how to do this or do this to a layer?

Also, When I remove the background from a portrait, I use the magic eraser which I find very easy to do when I set the tolerance to 50 or 90; but the outline is a bit jagged. Is their an outline blur to smooth the edges?

Thanks,

John

[karen donnybrook]

John,

Try using the Polygonal lasso tool. click where you want to start and holding the shift key down move to the next point in your triangle and click again, repeat this for each side and then hit delete. Remember to "Shift+D" to deselect when you have finished.

Hope this helps.

Karen :)

[The Grons]

thanks karen

[Berengaria]

John: I just saw this yesterday in Robert Redwood's Elements Express:


"Smooth Selection Tip

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We haven't had a QuickTip in a while, have we? Here's a great time-saver when using our old friend, the magic wand tool.

If you make a selection with the magic wand tool, but there are lots of 'speckled' pixels that have been left out, there are some simple ways to fix this.

First, make sure you've adjusted the Tolerance setting correctly. Often tweaking this slightly can vastly improve the selection.

If you're still left with lots of odd pixels, try picking 'Select - Modify - Smooth' from the menu. Then pick a small value (1-10 pixels probably), and click Ok.

This will smooth out jagged edges and missing pixels from the selection, saving you a lot of time manually selecting them.

Finally though, don't be scared to do a bit of manual labour. You might find you do need to get in there with the Marquee tools, and fix the last few bits yourself.

Manual fixing can mostly be avoided, but don't spend so long avoiding it that it would have been quicker to do it manually in the first place!"

Hope it helps.

Berengaria