? how part of a foto becomes an icon .png ?

Happy new year

I wanted to cut out of a foto a face and make this part of the foto to an .png file.

Is there an easy way to do it or a programm ?

best wishes from Berlin

For Windows: The easiest way to do this without anything like Photoshop is to open up the photo of a face in Microsoft Paint (Start->All Programs->Accessories->Paint) and cut it out using the free form select tool (the button that looks kind of like a star on the toolbar). Draw that around the face, let go of the left mouse button, then press ctrl + C (alternatively Edit->Copy). Then, open the .png file in another Paint window, and press ctrl + V (alternatively Edit->Paste) to paste it in there. Drag the pasted image to where you want it in the .png file, and save it. There you go.

For Macs, however, you're on your own. :|

#347119

that works well but if I put the icon into objectdock I have he face in a white background-I would like to have only the "round"face

#347158

how can I force a shape to that picture now-like a cicle or the exact shape of the face or object-or "seethrough"(dont know the word in english"transparent" background

#347159

To create a transparent background, you have to have something like Microsoft Photo Editor (comes with Microsoft Office clip art CD) or Photoshop, because MS Paint cannot do that (unless I'm missing something).

#347160

There are some free alternatives out that offer Photoshop qualities (ie: working with Layers, Transparency, Vectors). One off the top of my head is actually by MS, if I remember correctly, which is in beta that can be found here and there's this one which was orignially supposed to be a MS Paint replacement.

Note: you will need the .Net Framework for the last one to work.

#347176

Try gimp, its nice and free.

Also paint can do gif like transparency, I think.

#347177

thank a lot-

a fiend has photoshop-but I guess it is complicated to doit with photoshop-first I try with those free tools-thanks

#347311

OK now I have the same problem as I would have with photoshop-how to do it-what kind of tool do I have to use of these freeware programs?

I downloaded:

PaintDotNet_2_5

gimpshop_2.2.8