Transparent

[Pat-Gail]

Is it possible in Elements 3 or 5 to change a photo so that you have only a selected item visible and the rest transparent so you can use the selected item in a slide show and have it move across another layer?

Thank you
Pat-Gail

[Byron Gale]

Pat-Gail,

Elements can certainly change part of an image to transparency, and can certainly save the image in a format that supports transparency (PSD, TIF, PNG, GIF).

I do not know of a way, though, to create a slide show in Elements which has one image sailing past another - Elements' slide shows simply have one image replace the previous, using the transition of your choice. And when you have an image with transparency, you have to assign a solid color to be displayed in the slide show.

So IF you have another program which handles transparent images in a slide show the way you describe, then you can certainly use Elements to prepare the image... but Elements won't make the slide show the way you describe.

Byron

[elwoodsusanm]

Interesting! How do you make just part of a photo transparent?:):confused:

[TonyW]

I've never tried it but in principle you should be able to do it in the slideshow program I have (Proshow Gold) as it supports transparency. Like Byron says though you'd have to save the images as a psd, png, gif or tiff as those formats are the ones that support transparency. I'm sure there are other ways to do it - Flash animation for example and possibly Premier Elements although I haven't used it.

To make part of an image transparent you just delete it - as long as you have a transparent background and save it in one of the above formats it will stay transparent (as long as the viewer you're using supports transparency)

Tony

[Pat-Gail]

Thank you Tony. I am using ProShow Gold 3.2 to create the slide show but I wanted a transparent slide to pan across another slide. I will try changing the image to another format and see if I can get it to work.

Pat-Gail