Suppose I wanted this image:



to open not as a circular image on a white square, but just as the image itself without any background.

How would I go about it? Could I cut the lion out? The OS and lightweight editing tools only crop to squares and rectangles. Could I make the white area transparent so that any desktop or other background would show through that part of the jpg? (I would use it as a desktop pic without its background showing.)

I have Skitch and Pixelmator as my editing tools. I *might* be able to find one of my older copies of Photoshop Elements.

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I don't usually think of transparency as being part of JPG. But make a new PNG, paste in the circular selection, and save.

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I don't usually think of transparency as being part of JPG. But make a new PNG, paste in the circular selection, and save.

I don't believe you can have true transparency with a JPEG.

or download this...


I'm no PS guru, but I think it's pretty good...

I don't know if you can do it with the tools you have...

Being totally clueless, I'll give that a try later.

Changing it to a .png, that I can do.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

LOL, thanks, hal!

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

[www.photoshoptroll.com]

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Now, how did you do that?

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

I see where this is going...

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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity

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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity

in photoshop

a circular selection

feather 1 pixel

delete background

cmd-shft-opt-s and save a png

bakookaman, that looks cool!

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