pasting abnormal shaped images

[bubbleman]

Hello everyone,

i keep having problems when i paste an image that is an abnormal shape or a round shape. whenever i do this i end up with a square white background of the image if you get what i mean.

in the old MSpaint there was a couple of icons on the left when you had a selection that would remove the white from the image and make it transperant.

any help here would be great if you can understand what i am saying

thanks

[Crazy Man Dan]

You could post the irregular shape on a new layer, not the background layer. Then delete the background layer, and the white will disappear, replaced by grey checkers. Those grey checkers indicate transparency, so if you save in a format that supports transparency, those areas will be transparent, not white.

Hope that helps!

[chrifou]

Is there a simple solution to this ? In Paint, you just have to click the transparency botton at the bottom of the tools window.

[Illnab1024]

What Crazy Man Dan said above was about as simple as it is... When you have a program with so many features, you have to disambiguate between one tool and the next.

[chrifou]

Thank you for your answer.

I hope this feature is included in the next version though.

It is a lot longer to erase the background and not always as precise as the feature in Paint (unless there is something I don't do right).

I have to say that I love the program though. :wink:

[Illnab1024]

Turn your tolerance bar to 0 (The blue bar to the left, drag it all the way left), select the magic wand, and Shift+Click on the white. This will erase all white. Play with the tolerance to get the effect you want.

[crosswalker]

as long as you paste your image onto a new layer, you shouldn't have to erase anything. If you want to get rid of the background, layer itself, you can just highlight it in the layers window and click the little "X" button to delete it.

[chrifou]

I want to thank everybody for your help. I'm now able to do what I wanted to do.