# Question on masking a person (jpeg or any other format)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-on-masking-a-person-jpeg-or-any-other-format/31467>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 23, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-on-masking-a-person-jpeg-or-any-other-format/31467 "2003-09-23T05:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pares101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pares101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pares101)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-on-masking-a-person-jpeg-or-any-other-format/31467/1 "2003-09-23T05:54:15Z")

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hey people!

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     This came up pretty puzzling to me , i see a lot of sites that have pictures of people but there background are not shown. Now i want to do this for a site i am building. Do i have to manually trace the picture that i want to use in flash or is there another of me doing this?

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Btw the file is attached. If anyone would kindly show how to do it  
plese help 😛