Croping a Photo

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Croping a Photo

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I have a picture of my brothers cat that I want to
engrave on some plexiglass.
I have used paint.net and cropped the picture to the outline
I want. However I can not for the life of me get the white
background trimmed from the outside of the cats face.

I know it can be done, but I'm stumped.

I have photo Vcarve, VcarvePro, Microsoft paint, and
paint.net.
I sure could use a nudge.
Thanks for any help!
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Re: Croping a Photo

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In Paint.net the tool you're looking for is the "magic wand" 4th down on left column of tool tray. Here's a very short video on using it.
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Thanks Highpockets, I got that far but must be missing a step
afterwards.

Attached is a copy of the picture after paint.net

I need just the cats face.

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100_2600 BW Cropped.jpg
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Like this?
Like this?
Or like this?
Or like this?
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Re: Croping a Photo

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I'm not sure what your showing me, but the problem is when
I go to engrave the face it engraves a square with the face in
it. I just want the face. Is that a mask?
Hope I'm explaining this right.
Thanks for your replies!!
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Try this one. It's in .png format and available as a jpeg if you need it. I used Photoshop. Not sure how it could be done in Paint.net
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100_2600 BW Cropped2.png
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Re: Croping a Photo

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You need to save in .png format to preserve the transparent background.
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Bob, sort if I was confused the issue. The green is just a layer to show the head more clearly with a transparent background. I believe the problem your having is because the background on your photo is white and not transparent. Gerry is also correct, you need to be saving the image in a file format that supports transparency (tif, png ...) . I usually use .png.
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Why can't you just use the trace bitmap tool and then use that to tool path inside vectors.

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Re: Croping a Photo

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Thanks everyone. I'll try the trace idea. I had thought of that
but thought it could be done in one of the photo programs.
Thanks Gerry for the tip on .png
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Re: Croping a Photo

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Not liking the odds of it looking recognizable in plexi, post back your results when able.
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Re: Croping a Photo

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+1 to what Doug has said :lol: :lol:

Just as additional information, not only does jpeg not support transparencies it is really the worst file format to use for this sort of work. It does a good job of compressing files which gives a smaller file size, thats why it is so popular on the internet where file size is quite important BUT in order to get the smaller file size a lot of the colour info is discarded. For viewing on the internet that discarded info is not needed but for printing & work like this that extra info can make all the difference to the final quality :lol: :lol:

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Re: Croping a Photo

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I'll try a cut on Saturday.
Martin - when going to BW does it matter if the full
quality if the color is there?? Just asking as I don't know.
Thanks
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Re: Croping a Photo

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I don't have any personal experiences, to be honest I have never converted anything to black & white, if I am converting colour then I have always converted to greyscale, I have never even tried the B&W options in photo editing software out of curiosiy :lol: :lol: my gut tells me that B&W is not going to give you the best results for something like this. :lol:

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Re: Croping a Photo

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I tried a couple of attempts on some scrap.
Did not turn out. Funny how my mind thinks of
things that I can not do. LOL
Thanks for the suggestions.
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