I'm putting together a presentation with a couple product photos and logos. Is there any way (after cropping) to edit out excess white background around the photos and graphics? These are all curves, so just cropping to the horizontal and vertical limit of the product won't do.
Lehava
Jul 5, 2005 1:32 pm
Originally Posted by boilermaker
I'm putting together a presentation with a couple product photos and logos. Is there any way (after cropping) to edit out excess white background around the photos and graphics? These are all curves, so just cropping to the horizontal and vertical limit of the product won't do.
If you have access to Photoshop you can solve this (I do it all the time). put your bkg or bkg color onto the bkg layer in photoshop, then place your graphic over it and "magic wand" out the white. poof gone. That or if your bkg is a single color just replace the white with that color and insert as normal.
There is also a tool in powerpoint that you can click on the white and it will somewhat erase it, but I have found this to be VERY shotty and irratic, much prefer the PS way of fixing this.
Hope it helps.
boilermaker
Jul 5, 2005 1:34 pm
Nevermind - I "discovered" my answer. Just go to the Picture tool bar and select "Select Transparent Color" and then place the cursor over the section you want transparent.
DallasBill
Jul 5, 2005 1:36 pm
never mind
Lehava
Jul 5, 2005 1:40 pm
Originally Posted by boilermaker
Nevermind - I "discovered" my answer. Just go to the Picture tool bar and select "Select Transparent Color" and then place the cursor over the section you want transparent.
This is the tool I was mentioning. It works well if your graphic/logo is VERY good quality and all the white is actually still white, if you have older or compressed photos sometimes it works and sometimes you have a lot of "remnants". Glad it worked for you.
