cropping

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robert_held
May 10, 2005
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I scanned a round clock but it is framed by the square lines of the scan boundary. How could I crop away this background beyond the round face of the clock? I could not ‘tame’ the elliptical crop boundary into a perfect circle… attempts with the magnetic lasso resulted in a ragged outline…

I would welcome suggestions

Robert Held
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Lou_M
May 10, 2005
Robert,

You can hold down the Shift key (after clicking with the mouse first) to get your ellipse into a perfect circle.
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Corey
May 10, 2005
Hold the SHFT key to constrain to a circle, and if you press the space bar you can reposition you selection. Another way is to find the center of the circle or image by pressing CTRL +T and dragging guides, one horizontal and one vertical and "snapping them to the center. The place your cursor on the center and press ALT+SHFT to create a circle from the center out.

Peadge 😉

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Robert,

You can hold down the Shift key (after clicking with the mouse first) to
get your ellipse into a perfect circle.
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Colin_Walls
May 10, 2005
You can only crop to a rectangular shape, because all image files are that shape.

You can select any shape you want and Lou has told you how to get a circle. Additional info: hold down ALT too and the selection grows from the centre, which can be useful.

Having made the selection, you can copy/paste it [to somewhere] or invert the selection and delete the unwanted area. However, this will just fill it with the currently selected background colour. It i spossible to make this transparent, but that depends on a few things like what are you going to do with the image?
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Karin_Sue
May 10, 2005
How about using the magic wand to select the background, then delete it? This often works well if you have a uniform background.

Kari
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robert_held
May 10, 2005
Lou M hello,

Thanks for your advice – I just got back to the computer today and this taught me more than days of banging my head against the wall struggling with the elusive ellipse!!! Robert held
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robert_held
May 10, 2005
Karin Hello, thanks for your advice – foolishly i have never used the magic wand… live and learn FROM THE GOOD TEACHERS!!! Thanks again robert held
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robert_held
May 10, 2005
Colin hello,

Thanks for your copious list of good advice. I wanted to use this image of the clock as part of a ‘thank you’ note to my doctor whose alertness saved my life (sent me to a cardiologist whose stress test showed all five arteries clogged,within less than 24 hours a successful open heart surgery turned the tide…) The face of the clock shows "one minute before midnight" to symbolize how close it all was. Thus I want the card be picture perfect and I learned more from the three of you in one day than all the time I have PSE 2.)…
Yours Robert Held
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Lou_M
May 11, 2005
Glad it worked, Robert. Hope you’re feeling better!

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