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1. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
hatstead Nov 23, 2014 6:10 AM (in response to TomCartoons)In Editor, go File>new>Blank file
Enter dimensions for the canvas. Resolution should be the same (ideally) as that of the picture/object which you intend to place on the canvas. Color Mode:RGB. Background color:White.
Note, for printing it is desirable to have the resolution in 240-300 px/in range. For web work 72 px/in is ok.
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2. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
TomCartoons Nov 23, 2014 7:38 AM (in response to hatstead)Thanks ! Been fiddling for a week or three ! How simple when you know ! Had no luck on Adobe forums and PE13 Help — far too complicated for me. Ditto manual. Yet I've been using Artrage 2 and PE 4 for 5 years. Computers daily for 18 years. Recent upgrade to Artrage 4 and PE13 gave me the problem. I've now abandoned Artrage and begun drawing (cartoons) direct in PE13. Tried to upload a low k jpg cartoon here, but this site wouldn't let me.
Much happier now. Phew! Thanks again.
Tom.
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3. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
TomCartoons Nov 24, 2014 3:06 AM (in response to TomCartoons)PROBLEMS! Existing cartoons created in Artrage 2 and cropped and captioned in Photoshop Elements 4
are NOW (in PE13) not responding to any method I've tried . . . they all still have a background yellow
instead of white. NB the B&W option does give improvement . . . but I often use gray tone and sometimes color.
I have hundreds of these cartoons in stock. Do I need t go back to Artrage 2 and PE4 ?
Artrage 2 went jerky, hence upgrade to Artrage 4. Why doesn't PE13 have WHITE paper setting??
Frustrated again. Tom.
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4. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
hatstead Nov 24, 2014 3:59 AM (in response to TomCartoons)Please post a representative cartoon for us to look at.
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5. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
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6. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
hatstead Nov 24, 2014 5:21 AM (in response to TomCartoons)- Open file
- Duplicate background layer, and shut off visibility of background layer
- Set up Magic Wand tool. Uncheck "contiguous". Enter 20 for tolerance value. Then, left click on background of cartoon in the work area. Hit delete on keyboard.
- Press CTRL+D to get rid of marching ants
- Open a blank layer between the background and background copy layers, and fill with white (Edit>Fill Layer).
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7. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
TomCartoons Nov 24, 2014 5:44 AM (in response to hatstead)Did all that but not left click of magic wand. I disabled mouse clicks a few weeks ago after Apple Genius set them because I couldn't open or close anything.
Never used left or right clicks in 28 (not 18) years. I duplicated a guess at whatever is background layer (?) but didn't therefore know where to put the new white fill layer.
Tried various layers. Still got yellow background ( I mean cropped paper).
Sorry. How about FLATTEN LAYERS then add a new layer below and fill that new layer with white? I'll have a go now . . .
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8. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
TomCartoons Nov 24, 2014 5:58 AM (in response to TomCartoons)Nope. Whatever the solution, I'd need to have that as a ready function, i.e. one-click default for all cartoons.
I'm thinking to go back to old (5 year-old) computer with PE4. Use enhance wotsits. It did get faint gray backgrounds
very occasionally, but usually white.
Scared to facilitate rt and lft clicks . . . And NK which is background . . .
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9. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
hatstead Nov 24, 2014 6:14 AM (in response to TomCartoons)TomCartoons wrote:
Use enhance wotsits. It did get faint gray backgrounds
very occasionally, but usually white.
Scared to facilitate rt and lft clicks . . . And NK which is background . . .
Don't know what all this means. Whatever it is, it obviously is not working for you.
Perhaps someone will come along with a solution to your perceived problem.
Good luck.
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10. Re: How to achieve white paper canvas, not yellow?
TomCartoons Nov 24, 2014 6:20 AM (in response to hatstead)Thanks for your help. I think you solved the background problem
with NEW drawings. Before I revert to PE4 (which worked fine!)
I'll try my outlet agency with these yellowy ones — they do look
OK-ish in a certain light . . . we'll see. Don't tell them!
Thanks for everything.



