Easy question for photoshop 7 users!

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How do i save ONLY the selection?

In flash mx, i can save something as a png and it will come into photoshop as selection (drawing) only.

I need to do something in photoshop, and bring it into flash, but no work area, just the image (my logo).

It will be awful it it’s not possible :frowning:

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With your selection, hit Ctrl X to cut it out then open a new file and hit Ctrl P to paste it. Now your selection will be a seperate file for you to do whatever you want.

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Thanks!

And this selection can be taken into flash mx as just the seletion yeh dude?

I hope so!!

EDIT: I need the selection ONLY to come into flash mx!

Sorry about not being clear :-\

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I’m not sure if you can copy it directly into flash, I know that you can save it out and then import it in though.

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What would i save it as, so that only the selection comes in?

I tried jpeg, png and a few others…:-\

See…i found a better way to achieve the glint effect :stuck_out_tongue:

This is the last thing in the way :geek:

Can you remember the file extension it should be saved under?

Thanks a lot for your help :A+:

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Unfortunately - u can’t paste just the selection in Flash from Photoshop - it puts in a white square around it. So the only way I have found to do it is: make your thing in photoshop then import it in Fireworks - select it - then invert your selection and delete everything u don’t need - export as PNG - and then put import it in Flash (Flash will accept it from Fireworks without putting in that annoying little border).

Or the hard way (if u don’t have fireworks) is bring it into flash - break it apart and then start chopping off the areas u don’t need.

Hope that helps,

D. :beam:

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Ok,

i took my image to fireworks,
Selected the image,
Then did selection–inverse,

now what? How do i delete the area i don’t need :-\

Thanks a bunch for the help

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Try hitting DEL - if that doesn’t work I’ll be able to tell u in about an hour when i get home from work cause that’s where I got Fireworks. If I don’t have the program in front of me I seem to forget how to do stuff :crazy: :sigh:

D. :beam:

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You are the man!

I really appreciate the help.

Sometimes it can be very daunting when you don’t know how to do something that seems so easy.

If need be, i can upload my logo.

Thanks

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:-\

anyone?

I’m still struggling :frowning:

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what are you still struggling with

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LOL!

Basically this is what happened:

  1. i created a logo (clean vector one remember?) in flash mx
  2. I saved it as a .png and imported into PhotoShop7
  3. Messed about with it a bit and made it look pretty

Now i want it back in flash mx to animate :bad:

BUT i want ONLY the logo (selection) no border or white space or any of that nonsense.

How do i get it back to flash as JUST the image…no border?

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export it again as a png. If you have fireworks I would drag it through there first since they have .png 32 there. But in any case export it as a .png from where ever. pick alpha transparency and no matte. You shold be good to go. I thin someone else mentioned this also

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http://www.hinduvidya.com/1_logo.png

try it dude, it doesn’t work. I’ve spent hours on this :frowning:

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email me your psd…I have a few minutes before a meeting if you hurry nathan@implod.com

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sdang it nevermind I do not have PS where I am scratch that…sorry man

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Thanks i sent it!

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U still need help? Sorry I couldn’t get back to you yesterday, had to go out :slight_smile: .

D :beam:

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yeh still need help :-\

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try using the extract tool, and cut out the background. the you will just have the logo. the go to Edit - Select All. and then Edit - Copy. then paste it in flash as a MC or something like that.