Program question

[Serj]

I'm starting to use a lot of graphic design in my projects for college. At College there is PhotoDrawV2 which I've been using a lot, FireWorks and Paint. I haven't used the last two much. I've yet to find a way though where I can take an image, and crop the background. I'm going to start to make graphics in the same way as you would making a sig, where you take an image, remove it's background and then place it in some sort of shape that has a cool background. Is there anyway that I can remove background easily, and if so how do you do it? I'd prefer this to be in PhotoDraw because it's the only good program I can use. An example of what I mean would be in my sig. The picture of Kane had a red background. I managed to remove it but I don't know how I did it. This allowed me to move it anywhere I wanted knowing that I could put it over any type of background. Could someone help me?

[Rensa]

I'm not sure about PhotoDraw, but Photoshop has the Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand and various other tools for seperating bitmap images. The latest version of Fireworks, MX 2003/4 has the magic wand too. It basically selects pixels that have a similar colour to the wand you've clicked (you can set its tolerance). But, you haveto practice ith it a fair bit. :D

[Serj]

OK, I'm not sure how new their version of Fireworks is. I think it was the version before the new one though because they've had it a while. I'll have to have a look about. Thanks Rensa