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Souljas

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Feb 4, 2004
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Hi,

Im currently trying to make my personal website, i have designed a logo in Photoshop (image below) and was just wondering how do i crop the logo and get rid of the white bits on the side which are not needed, so all I have left is the cirles and the lines on the side?

http://tinypic.com/2309l

Many thanks
Soul
 

Digital Hybrid

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Sep 22, 2003
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In thy closeth
Uh.. It looks to me as if you have made a logo, used printscreen and saved it in another program. If that's the case, why? :p
To crop an image in photoshop, use the cropping function (keyboard shortcut "C") and crop yourself crazy.

To save in Photoshop, click File -> "Save for Web"
 

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Souljas

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Feb 4, 2004
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thx for the relpy. lol, yeah I dunnow why I really printed screen, im using my partners PC :eek: ! anyways can I use the crop tool for cropping the shapes that are in white, because my crop tool ony seems to crop in square/rectangle shape?. Ive shown below the parts that I want to be taken out:

http://tinypic.com/230wn

thanks
Soul
 

emw

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Aug 2, 2004
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Souljas said:
thx for the relpy. lol, yeah I dunnow why I really printed screen, im using my partners PC :eek: ! anyways can I use the crop tool for cropping the shapes that are in white, because my crop tool ony seems to crop in square/rectangle shape?. Ive shown below the parts that I want to be taken out:

http://tinypic.com/230wn

thanks
Soul

Cropping is only a rectangular function. If you want to mask (silhouette) the image so that the white areas are transparent, you can use the Help > Export Transparent Image... in Photoshop. I think you will need to know how to use the masking tools (see screen grab below) to identify the areas to make transparent.
 

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iLikeMyiMac

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Jul 17, 2004
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St. Louis
Souljas said:
thx for the relpy. lol, yeah I dunnow why I really printed screen, im using my partners PC :eek: ! anyways can I use the crop tool for cropping the shapes that are in white, because my crop tool ony seems to crop in square/rectangle shape?. Ive shown below the parts that I want to be taken out:

http://tinypic.com/230wn

thanks
Soul
I think you could use the Extract tool.(its under Filters IIRC)
 

PixelFactory

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Jun 6, 2003
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Chicago
what you want to do is save for web as a .gif. you will have an option to make a color transparent. Just make white the matte color.
 

Souljas

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Feb 4, 2004
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thanks for the help guys. If I saved it for web, and then made white transparent, could I then export it into another PhotoshopDocument? Because when I try to move it via the move tool it doesnt seem to want to go.

Soul
 
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