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Tutorial – Creating your own Photo Clip Art – Part 3 (Using the Alpha Channel)

This article is part three in a tutorial. It is recommended that you read parts 1 & 2 first.

In part 2 of this tutorial, I explained how to use the scissors tool to produce a rough selection around the daffodil flower. This selection area is now going to be used to produce a mask that we add can add to the alpha channel of the image. By working on the mask, we can obtain a smooth transition from opaque (the flower) to transparent (the background), with no jagged edges. Continue reading

A Bit about Bit Maps

I often get asked about the different file types for images that are found on the internet, so I thought that it might be useful to do a beginner’s guide on this blog to help out. This posting, in the true spirit of a beginner’s guide, is a very basic look at bitmap images and, as such, will not go into any great technical detail, as I feel that such detail is not needed by the vast majority of our customers. Continue reading