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OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 11:45 AM
anyone an expert?

I have a couple of questions.

JohnnyMack
2/21/2008, 11:49 AM
Yes.

Fire away.

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 11:51 AM
no really, I need someone that can help.

Hamhock
2/21/2008, 12:06 PM
present.

JohnnyMack
2/21/2008, 12:07 PM
I'm waiting.

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:08 PM
How do you create 'clipping paths' in Publisher '07?

I don't even know what microsoft calls them, but in photoshop and indesign we call them clipping paths, where you can change the edges of a picture, curved lines and edges and such, it's bascially some kind of overlay in publisher....

stoops the eternal pimp
2/21/2008, 12:09 PM
If you need help with PrintMaster Gold version 2 I m your guy

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:09 PM
I'm waiting.

I fell for that from you last time when I needed that help with my colon and you pointed me to jalpeno gel , never again pal.

stoops the eternal pimp
2/21/2008, 12:17 PM
What exactly are you wanting to do with the picture?

jkm, the stolen pifwafwi
2/21/2008, 12:23 PM
How do you create 'clipping paths' in Publisher '07?

I don't even know what microsoft calls them, but in photoshop and indesign we call them clipping paths, where you can change the edges of a picture, curved lines and edges and such, it's bascially some kind of overlay in publisher....

don't you just right click on the picture and click format picture?

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:25 PM
well, it's a rectangle shape, but I wanted it to mimic the sample picture which is NOT rectangle shaped. it basically has a vector path template of some kind that overlays the picture...but it's like the picture and the overlay aren't separate until you try to delete the picture, and then all it does is delete the overlay instead.

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:26 PM
don't you just right click on the picture and click format picture?

no, only options that gives you is cropping on an X Y axis only.

jkm, the stolen pifwafwi
2/21/2008, 12:36 PM
ah, your trying to mask the picture? might want to try that part in the gimp.

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:39 PM
yeah, I could do that, but what I'm really trying to figure out is how they did it it publisher, cause it's there...and if I can do it easily in the program I'm working in then that would be preferable to making a copy of a picture to modify and then insert.

know what I mean?

jkm, the stolen pifwafwi
2/21/2008, 12:42 PM
up until this point i was happy having only opened project, visio, word and excel :mad:

stoops the eternal pimp
2/21/2008, 12:43 PM
working on it..hopefully somebody else will figure it out sooner than i do

jkm, the stolen pifwafwi
2/21/2008, 12:44 PM
try inserting a picture into an autoshape

jkm, the stolen pifwafwi
2/21/2008, 12:45 PM
http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA012301581033&ns=MSPUB&lcid=1033

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 12:45 PM
I wonder if it's an overlay made in another program, like gimp, with the center part just being transparent, then it's just inserted on top of another picture?

shiat...I don't know. i r confused.

Hamhock
2/21/2008, 03:06 PM
can you restate the question?

sanantoniosooner
2/21/2008, 03:09 PM
can you restate the question?
If you saw a bobcat, what would you do to it?

OU4LIFE
2/21/2008, 03:09 PM
no, i'm too confused.

it reacts like a picture file, So I just drug it off the page, then swapped out the picture and drug it back over on top of the new picture. Done.

But I still don't understand how they made it. Or the properties. it's transparent if you lay it over any text, but it masks out the edges of the picture...

stupid Publisher 2007...