OrangeFeet Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Whats with the gray checker board? I cut and paste an image to another image and i cant get rid of the checker boar on the other image. What do i do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchunn Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Your post is titled "copy and paste", but you talk about "CUT and paste". The checker board is how the program represents a transparent area, and the checkerboard will not show up in any saved images. If you are "cutting" and pasting, then you have moved your image from one place to another, leaving a transparent area in your source image, which looks like a checker board. If you don't want to "move" the image, then be sure to "COPY" and paste, which will leave your original image intact. Quote Total hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeFeet Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Your post is titled "copy and paste", but you talk about "CUT and paste". The checker board is how the program represents a transparent area, and the checkerboard will not show up in any saved images. If you are "cutting" and pasting, then you have moved your image from one place to another, leaving a transparent area in your source image, which looks like a checker board. If you don't want to "move" the image, then be sure to "COPY" and paste, which will leave your original image intact. i cut it this time and it still has checkers. im using the eraser on the cut image and the board shows up in the erased area. i want to see the image im pasting to underneath the erased part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchunn Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Ah, you need to be using layers. Play around with layers and you'll figure it out. EDIT: The image you are pasting to will be your "bottom" layer. The image you are cutting will be your top layer. When you erase a spot on the top layer, you will see the image on the bottom layer, instead of the checker board. Be sure the top layer is highlighted in the layer list when you do your erase. Quote Total hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeFeet Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Ah, you need to be using layers. Play around with layers and you'll figure it out.EDIT: The image you are pasting to will be your "bottom" layer. The image you are cutting will be your top layer. When you erase a spot on the top layer, you will see the image on the bottom layer, instead of the checker board. Be sure the top layer is highlighted in the layer list when you do your erase. i see LAYERS lol. its working now. thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeFeet Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 now its not. i select post in to new layer. the only way i cant get checker and i post it. then it posts another image. confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hit F1 from within the program and look for "Layers." This should help you with any problems you may have. Quote  The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeFeet Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 I still cant find why im getting the checker board. I go to paste in to new image and in order for me to get what i want to do i have to paste another copy of the same exact thing to the new image (2 copies) whats the point of that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.C. (Conviction Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 the checker thing shows that nothing is there and to help out, paste the thing on a new layer Quote ~97% of teens won't stand up for Anything. Put this on your sig if you're one of the 3% who've fallen down trying. Oh, and there's 3 types of people in this world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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