Re: How to delete the outline of an image selection from the
image beneath

"Susan P." <spREMOVETHIS@REMOVETHISTOOicons-icons.com> wrote in

news:47dea3d2$1_1@cnews:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem that I'm not sure I can explain.
> 
> Before I get started, my sample image is here, if anyone wants to 
> take a look at it:
> http://www.icons-icons.com/PSP/SuesProblemImage.pspimage
> 
> I want to combine two images into one.  In my sample image, I 
> want to combine the floating person image with the dots-lines 
> image underneath it (Note: the blue background must stay on a 
> separate layer).
> 
> When I combine the two images, I want to delete the area outlined 
> by the person image from the dots-lines image underneath it.
> 
> Now, I know that I could put the person image on a separate 
> layer, then erase what I didn't want from dots-lines image 
> underneath it.  But that would be quite time consuming, and I 
> need to do this for a lot of images.
> 
> I thought I might be able to do this with masks.  I'm not very 
> familiar with masks, but it looked like it might be a solution. 
> However, when I tried to create a mask from my person image 
> selection, all the mask functions were disabled (grayed out and 
> unavailable!).
> 
> I'm not a PSP guru, rather, I've learned what I need to know to 
> do my simple images, and am usually happy with that.  However, I 
> will need to do this delete-under-the-selection process on 
> hundreds of images, so I'm really hoping one of you nice, smarter 
> people here will know some easy way to accomplish this.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
Is the attached jpg what you're trying to achieve?  If so, I promoted 
the selection to a layer, then right clicked the layers palette, Merge>
Merge Down, then hit the Cut button (I could likely have used the Delete 
key on the keyboard but mine doesn't seem to be working lately).
Regards,
JoeB

Hi all,

I have a problem that I'm not sure I can explain.

Before I get started, my sample image is here, if anyone wants to 
take a look at it:
http://www.icons-icons.com/PSP/SuesProblemImage.pspimage

I want to combine two images into one.  In my sample image, I 
want to combine the floating person image with the dots-lines 
image underneath it (Note: the blue background must stay on a 
separate layer).

When I combine the two images, I want to delete the area outlined 
by the person image from the dots-lines image underneath it.

Now, I know that I could put the person image on a separate 
layer, then erase what I didn't want from dots-lines image 
underneath it.  But that would be quite time consuming, and I 
need to do this for a lot of images.

I thought I might be able to do this with masks.  I'm not very 
familiar with masks, but it looked like it might be a solution. 
However, when I tried to create a mask from my person image 
selection, all the mask functions were disabled (grayed out and 
unavailable!).

I'm not a PSP guru, rather, I've learned what I need to know to 
do my simple images, and am usually happy with that.  However, I 
will need to do this delete-under-the-selection process on 
hundreds of images, so I'm really hoping one of you nice, smarter 
people here will know some easy way to accomplish this.

Thank you for your help,


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Hi Joe & Trev,

Thank you very much!  "Defloat" was what I needed.

I have always used Ctrl-D to drop my selections onto the active 
layer, so I didn't know about defloat.

What I ended up doing was expanding the selection a few pixels, 
then deleting it multiple times to clean up the semi-transparent 
edges a bit more.  This is important for optimizing the image for 
small sizes - my work needs to look good at 32x32 pixels and smaller:

http://www.icons-icons.com/PSP/SuesProblemFixed.gif

But "defloat" was the key.

Thank you again, not only for the answers, but for how fast you 
replied.  :)


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Susan P. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem that I'm not sure I can explain.
>
> Before I get started, my sample image is here, if anyone wants to
> take a look at it:
> http://www.icons-icons.com/PSP/SuesProblemImage.pspimage
>
> I want to combine two images into one.  In my sample image, I
> want to combine the floating person image with the dots-lines
> image underneath it (Note: the blue background must stay on a
> separate layer).
>
> When I combine the two images, I want to delete the area outlined
> by the person image from the dots-lines image underneath it.
>
> Now, I know that I could put the person image on a separate
> layer, then erase what I didn't want from dots-lines image
> underneath it.  But that would be quite time consuming, and I
> need to do this for a lot of images.
>
> I thought I might be able to do this with masks.  I'm not very
> familiar with masks, but it looked like it might be a solution.
> However, when I tried to create a mask from my person image
> selection, all the mask functions were disabled (grayed out and
> unavailable!).
>
> I'm not a PSP guru, rather, I've learned what I need to know to
> do my simple images, and am usually happy with that.  However, I
> will need to do this delete-under-the-selection process on
> hundreds of images, so I'm really hoping one of you nice, smarter
> people here will know some easy way to accomplish this.
>
> Thank you for your help,

If you defloat the person image you now have it on the same layer as the 
others bar the blue background if you then do delete you remove the 
selected are from that layer. If its the same shaped selection that you want 
to delete from all the other images then save the selection to disc. That if 
I understand what you are trying to do . as You seam to have come up with 
lots of un necessary permutations. Oh Nearly forgot do selection load from 
disc to get the Person selection onto all the other images

-- 
Trev
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But you can't tell him much.