set transparent background?

I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop, when I
transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a white background
instead of just me and my hat. When I use the transparent background tool,
it erases all that is white including the color out of my hat and apron. Is
there anyway to just take away the white background without messing up my
image?

In PS you could try the magnetic lasso to enclose the image of yourself
(dont work with the original file...just in case), the Select Inverse and
try to fill the white with a color not used in your image...or leave your
image selected (dont inverse selection) and Copy to a New file with the
background layer set to a solid color that isn't in the original image..that
way you can select that unused color to be transparent in Pub.

Probably 10 more ways to approach this as well...depends on the complexity
of your image.


"pabbie33" wrote in message
...
|I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop, when I
| transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a white background
| instead of just me and my hat. When I use the transparent background
tool,
| it erases all that is white including the color out of my hat and apron.
Is
| there anyway to just take away the white background without messing up my
| image?

pabbie33 was very recently heard
to utter:
I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop,
when I transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a
white background instead of just me and my hat.

What picture format have you used to export the image?

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

you'll need to save the image as a.gif for it to maintain it's transparent
background

LowDownAndDirty was very
recently heard to utter:
you'll need to save the image as a.gif for it to maintain it's
transparent background

GIF supports single-colour transparency.

PNG supports alpha layer transparency. Publisher should show the
transparency on screen, but it may not print. If it does not print, you can
export the publication as a high-resolution PNG file and it should be
indistinguishable from a directly-printed file on most printers.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:34:02 +0000, LowDownAndDirty wrote
(in article ):

you'll need to save the image as a.gif for it to maintain it's transparent
background

I don't care if I get called a pedant, but I will not rest until people learn
to use the apostrophe correctly. What you have written makes absolutely no
sense whatsoever.

You have written

"You'll need to save the image as a GIF for it to maintain (and I think you
mean 'retain') it is transparent background."

How does that make sense? 'Its' (*no* apostrophe) is the correct possessive
adjective.

I did save it as a gif and it still won't remove that white background
without erasing anything white in the image.

"LowDownAndDirty" wrote:

you'll need to save the image as a.gif for it to maintain it's transparent
background

it's funny that you mention that because i tried that a few days ago and even
funnier was that the image came out in publisher with a different colored
background with that same damn white frame around that. I couldn't make the
different colored background transparent, only the white one without
affecting the white chef hat or apron. What others ways, as you mentioned
there were 10 more, could I get this accomplished?

"Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:

In PS you could try the magnetic lasso to enclose the image of yourself
(dont work with the original file...just in case), the Select Inverse and
try to fill the white with a color not used in your image...or leave your
image selected (dont inverse selection) and Copy to a New file with the
background layer set to a solid color that isn't in the original image..that
way you can select that unused color to be transparent in Pub.

Probably 10 more ways to approach this as well...depends on the complexity
of your image.


"pabbie33" wrote in message
...
|I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop, when I
| transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a white background
| instead of just me and my hat. When I use the transparent background
tool,
| it erases all that is white including the color out of my hat and apron.
Is
| there anyway to just take away the white background without messing up my
| image?

Thats why you have to make the background a different color in PS. Because
you can only have one transparent color in a gif. If you made the bg green
then set green as the tranparent color it wont effect the white chef's hat.

There's always (usually?) a way, but depends on the original image.


"pabbie33" wrote in message
...
| it's funny that you mention that because i tried that a few days ago and
even
| funnier was that the image came out in publisher with a different colored
| background with that same damn white frame around that. I couldn't make
the
| different colored background transparent, only the white one without
| affecting the white chef hat or apron. What others ways, as you mentioned
| there were 10 more, could I get this accomplished?
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| In PS you could try the magnetic lasso to enclose the image of yourself
| (dont work with the original file...just in case), the Select Inverse
and
| try to fill the white with a color not used in your image...or leave
your
| image selected (dont inverse selection) and Copy to a New file with the
| background layer set to a solid color that isn't in the original
image..that
| way you can select that unused color to be transparent in Pub.
|
| Probably 10 more ways to approach this as well...depends on the
complexity
| of your image.
|
|
| "pabbie33" wrote in message
| ...
| |I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop,
when I
| | transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a white
background
| | instead of just me and my hat. When I use the transparent background
| tool,
| | it erases all that is white including the color out of my hat and
apron.
| Is
| | there anyway to just take away the white background without messing up
my
| | image?
|
|
|

I think I set the background color. I set the background color to red and
then transported it to Publisher. ONce there I was able to remove the red
background, but it left a red tinge outlining the chef hat and apron as well
as casted a red shadow where it once was black. Maybe Way No.3 is a charm?
Thank you so much for your help, i truly appreciate this.

"Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:

Thats why you have to make the background a different color in PS. Because
you can only have one transparent color in a gif. If you made the bg green
then set green as the tranparent color it wont effect the white chef's hat.

There's always (usually?) a way, but depends on the original image.


"pabbie33" wrote in message
...
| it's funny that you mention that because i tried that a few days ago and
even
| funnier was that the image came out in publisher with a different colored
| background with that same damn white frame around that. I couldn't make
the
| different colored background transparent, only the white one without
| affecting the white chef hat or apron. What others ways, as you mentioned
| there were 10 more, could I get this accomplished?
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| In PS you could try the magnetic lasso to enclose the image of yourself
| (dont work with the original file...just in case), the Select Inverse
and
| try to fill the white with a color not used in your image...or leave
your
| image selected (dont inverse selection) and Copy to a New file with the
| background layer set to a solid color that isn't in the original
image..that
| way you can select that unused color to be transparent in Pub.
|
| Probably 10 more ways to approach this as well...depends on the
complexity
| of your image.
|
|
| "pabbie33" wrote in message
| ...
| |I have a picture of me wearing a chef hat I made in Adobe photoshop,
when I
| | transfer the image to publisher, the image appears with a white
background
| | instead of just me and my hat. When I use the transparent background
| tool,
| | it erases all that is white including the color out of my hat and
apron.
| Is
| | there anyway to just take away the white background without messing up
my
| | image?
|
|
|