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KathyC
March 30th, 2008, 04:17 PM
I'm very new at this so please be patient. How can you easily remove the background from clipart. I just want the symbol not the white border around it.
Bayla
March 30th, 2008, 06:01 PM
With the magic wand (and contiguous unchecked), click on any of the white which will select all the white. Then Ctrl-Shift-I to invert the selection, Ctrl-J to copy the selection to a new layer. You should then have your motif on its own layer with a transparent background.

Bayla
KathyC
March 31st, 2008, 02:05 PM
Thank you very much.
KathyC
March 31st, 2008, 02:10 PM
Hello Bayla. I was looking through your Gallery and you have beautiful pictures - one especially you indicated that you followed "Timothy's Vintage Border" - can you please provide the link.
Bayla
March 31st, 2008, 03:20 PM
HERE (http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28097&highlight=vintage+border) is the link to Timothy's tutorial. There are a couple of different ones in the thread. The instructions are quite long - once I'd created a couple of borders I saved them as .png files.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the instructions!

Bayla
KathyC
March 31st, 2008, 04:32 PM
WOW, I read the information and it is long - I'm so new at this I hope I can figure it out. Thanks for your help.
elwoodsusanm
April 1st, 2008, 07:00 AM
Am I right in thinking in Timothy's tutorial that in Step 4 selected map: schnable effect is just another copy of the image? This bit is unclear (well to me anyway:o)
Bayla
April 1st, 2008, 07:49 AM
When you click OK on the Displacement Map filter dialog box you then have to navigate to where the Schnable Effect Displacement map is found - for me it was C:>Program Files>Adobe>PSE6>Plugins>Displacement Maps.

Hope this helps.

Bayla

PS. Post #12 in Timothy's thread explains Step 4.
elwoodsusanm
April 1st, 2008, 08:07 AM
I have PSE5. Tried your suggestion. Got no items match your description:eek:
Bayla
April 1st, 2008, 10:10 AM
I have PSE5. Tried your suggestion. Got no items match your description:eek:

Strange. I have PSE3 on my computer as well, and I can find them by using the same pathway but going via PSE3 instead, so I'm sure they must be there in PSE5!

Bayla
elwoodsusanm
April 1st, 2008, 10:20 AM
Found Them:d
Bayla
April 1st, 2008, 10:21 AM
That's great. Don't you just love the way things are buried away!!:D

Bayla