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Thanks for the help. What I was trying to do is cut-out the images, save them as jpeg files and import them into another program. Bad idea- I guess. It will certainly work much easier to do this all in Paint.net as layers and then use the final product in the other program, saved as a jpeg. Thanks for the clarifications.

Not exactly what I am looking for. I do appreciate the attempt, though. I guess I am not being clear enough. Let's assume I have a picture of a man standing between two other men. I want to be able to take that photo and crop the man out of that photo and save the image of the man so I can place that man in a document- but I want the image to end up being just the outline of the man...I don't want the man inside a white rectangle. I want the final product to be a cut out of the man. Maybe what I'm trying to get is impossible...unless I actually print the picture, cut out the man, and paste him (along with all the other images I will be cutting out) onto a posterboard and then scan the posterboard. I just thought there must be a way to do this in some software.

Thanks very much for the try but I want the collage to look like I used scissors to cut the player's out of the picture and pasted the cut-outs on a poster board. This tutorial demonstrates how to get the entire rectagular photo onto the poster board.

I apologize I may have posted this earlier in the wrong section... Hello, I am really new and completely lost. I have searched to find the answers but nothing seems to help- or I just don't understand the technicalities of the answers. Here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to create a collage of photos by editing images, cropping them, and then placing the many croppedd images in Publisher so that the final product looks like a bunch of photos that wer printed, cut with scissors and pasted around and on top of each other to create the collage. The problem is that each of the methods I attempt results in an image that is rectangular with the cropped part the part I would like to keep and the area outside the crop being white. I don't want the white- just the irregular cropped part. Is there any way to do this? And please understand that I am not proficient in the use of these softwares so be very detailed in your help. Thanks