Feathered Edge on Oval Picture – How To?

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Dec 10, 2003
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I’m trying to take a scan of a print and create an oval containing a portion of the scanned picture. I want to have the oval edge feathered, and then incorporate it in a web page as a transparency. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Don

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Tom Nelson
Dec 10, 2003
In article , Don
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I’m trying to take a scan of a print and create an oval containing a portion of the scanned picture. I want to have the oval edge feathered, and then incorporate it in a web page as a transparency. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JPEG does not support transparency so you’ll have to save your photo as a GIF or PNG. If you must have JPEG, the workaround is to feather to the background color of your web page.
Tom Nelson
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Don
Dec 10, 2003
Hi Tom,

Thanks for the feedback. I tried using a GIF, but when I inserted it into the web page it lost its feather. It was feathered just before I inserted it. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Don

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:00:33 -0600, Tom Nelson
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In article , Don
wrote:

I’m trying to take a scan of a print and create an oval containing a portion of the scanned picture. I want to have the oval edge feathered, and then incorporate it in a web page as a transparency. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JPEG does not support transparency so you’ll have to save your photo as a GIF or PNG. If you must have JPEG, the workaround is to feather to the background color of your web page.
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

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Don
Dec 11, 2003
Thanks for your help Tom. Got it working.
Don

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:00:33 -0600, Tom Nelson
wrote:

In article , Don
wrote:

I’m trying to take a scan of a print and create an oval containing a portion of the scanned picture. I want to have the oval edge feathered, and then incorporate it in a web page as a transparency. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JPEG does not support transparency so you’ll have to save your photo as a GIF or PNG. If you must have JPEG, the workaround is to feather to the background color of your web page.
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

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tacitr
Dec 11, 2003
Thanks for the feedback. I tried using a GIF, but when I inserted it into the web page it lost its feather.

That is correct.

The GIF specification does not permit an image to be translucent. A pixel is 100% transparent or 100% opaque, nothing in-between.

Therefore, the feathered oval will not be feathered.

You can simulate it, though. In the Save for Web dialog is a place where you can specify a "matte color." Choose a matte color that is the same color as your Web page background.

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