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nerd04
Joined: 19 Mar 2011
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 Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:17 am Post subject: Hopefully an easy question regarding image size |
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Hello, I am a newbie and am struggling with what should be an easy one.
I have an oddly shaped image that is to be used as a button. I would like to be able to 'crop' the image to be the exact size of the button. My issue is that the button is not rectangular, and I don't see any other way to crop out the parts I do not need.
I know the lasso option is avail, but I still end up with an image on a 'canvas'. I need the canvas to be the same size of the button image.
I hope this makes sense.
Thank You in advance for any help at all. |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 3987
Location: Cheltenham, UK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Hi and welcome to the forum nerd04.
The most usual way would be to use either Image>Trim>Option to suit, although this does create a square selection regardless as will all other methods that I can think of, except an Image Map, as far as I know these can be created from clipping paths.
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renata
Joined: 26 Nov 2010
Posts: 368
Location: Australia
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I'm assuming that it's a button for a website, and that you're wondering what to do with the edges? If so, then there are a couple of options.
You can save the button as a transparent gif with the non-essential parts made transparent.
Or, if the website has a plain colour as a background (e.g a white background), then you can make the nonessential bits the same colour (e.g white). The non-essential parts will then be indistinguishable from the background of the web page.
Transparent GIF is probably the better choice because you can then change the background colour of the web page in the future without worrying that your button is going to look strange.
To create a transparent gif, first have your button ready to go, with the correct bits transparent in Photoshop. You can delete the bits that you don't want (e.g with the magic wand tool). Note that this won't work on the background layer (either double click background layer to turn it into an ordinary layer - or - copy to a new layer).
Then use Save for Web and choose the GIF option. You can resize it here too.
Hope that helps. |
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Netaddict
Joined: 16 Feb 2011
Posts: 332
Location: Earth
PS Version: CS6
OS: Windows 7 Professional
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:33 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problem, some time back. I was designing round cornerd rectangular buttons for a website and no mater how I cropped them, there still was a corner there.
I deleted the corner colors so the button sat on a transparent background and I saved them as .gif files ( with the transparency option checked) |
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