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1. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
station_two Jul 13, 2012 11:27 PM (in response to kjamesuvic)1.— Double-click on the background layer to turn it into a regular, unlocked layer.
2.— Select the white background around the layer. In this very simple example, the Magic Wand Tool and/or the Quick Select Tools will work fine.
3.— Hit the Delete (Backspace) key.
4.— Save your image as a PSD, TIFF, PNG or GiF. Other formats like JPEG do not support transparency; they would simply add the white pixels back in..
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2. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
janelle_f Jul 14, 2012 12:52 AM (in response to kjamesuvic)kjamesuvic-
another method is extracting the toast from the background.
this is a simple link and tutorial:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e582-37ff79af12b3b577ca2-8000 .html
-janelle
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3. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
Bill Hunt Jul 14, 2012 10:20 AM (in response to kjamesuvic)You have some of the methods, and especially Station_Two's (simple, but exactly what you need in that example) method, it should get you the Transparency around the "bread." Be sure to Save_As a format, that support Transparency. If you use something like JPEG, you WILL get that white area back.
One thing for next time:
"Crop" is a process for removing area within the Aspect Ratio of the image. It will always be done in a rectangular fashion. What you are looking to do is most often referred to as a "Knockout," where you are separating the subject from some background (taking that to Transparent), but not affecting the size of the Image.
Good luck,
Hunt
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4. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
kjamesuvic Jul 14, 2012 12:48 PM (in response to station_two)Thanks for the reply. I used the Magic Wand Tool to select the whitespace around the edges. However, when I hit 'delete' I get this message: "Could not complete your request because the smart object is not directly editable." The background layer is unlocked and I've tried using both JPEG and PNG as a file format for the imported picture (bread). Any ideas?
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5. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
kjamesuvic Jul 14, 2012 2:21 PM (in response to kjamesuvic)Nevermind, figured it out. Thanks everyone for the help
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6. Re: Cropping Non-Square Pictures
Bill Hunt Jul 14, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to kjamesuvic)Great news and happy editing.
Hunt






