Hi
I would like to create a png file with a transparent window so that I can move another image underneath the window.
I use Elements 10.
Can anybody help please?
Google is your friend...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ8d9oDnlcw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ8d9oDnlcw)
Thanks but what I am trying to do i cut a simple square window and use it to move an image behind it.
You mean you have one image as per the video with background area removed and then another image on a layer below that?
All you need to do is the same as the video, clear the 'see through area' then place the image you want to see through it on a layer below that layer... I use Photoshop but think elements has all these abilities...
This may be what you are trying to do?
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/creating-layers.html
Do you have MS Office? You can do this quite quickly in Powerpoint (but doesn't work every time but is very quick and easy if your image has a simple white background -I just checked and did it in a few seconds a few mins ago to check).
Open the picture, drag and drop the file or import into powerpoint as usual. Double click on the image and go to "remove background". You can then layer images under / over etc. by right clicking and setting the "bring to front" or "send to back" options etc. Right click on image and go "save as picture" -default is a .png but if not change it to that.
Hope that helps, if its more complicated than that I can't help. I don't know what elements 10 is but I'm windows 8.1 / windows 10.
Rich
***Whoops, just realised youre talking photoshop so no idea :-[ I never could understand photoshop, corel is usually much easier***
I use an ancient photo editor called Picture Publisher, on that I would open the picture I wish to place in the window, resize it so it fits the window then just copy it <CTRL>C and paste <CTRL>V onto the main image.
Any picture editor worth using should be able to do that, it's such an easy basic operation.
I have some backscene images of a country scene, I wanted to add a tractor in a field and a herd of cows in another, took longer to find suitable tractor and cows images on Google than to resize and copy/paste.
I've used Picture Publisher since V2 in 1992, came with my first scanner Corel bought Micrografx in about 2002 or 3 issued V 10 then buried it. Does all I need, and I've climbed the learning curve so why change . Added to which I see Adobe as a rip off merchant, their products are usually priced in USA way below the UK price (say USA $400 then we in UK would pay £500 can't recall the exact figures but you get the idea)) and if you try and buy from USA the sale gets blocked, unless they've changed a lot in the last couple of years.