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Thats a good suggestion, i never used that feature, I'll have to try it out.

Depends on how you are going to use it. If you wanted to add the picture to another image in photoshop, you can select the white space around the image with the wand tool and delete the white. When you copy that layer over another layer, the background will show throught. When the white has...

Good thinking Draper, if you do this alot, it will really speed up the process.

Hopefully they will post again and decribe their situation a little bit more, I'm thinking they are wanting to know about preserving the transparant area around an image (maybe for web?)

It is a good question, not sure i know the answer, looking at the save options in CS i can save the image pyramid, transparency as well as decide on the layer compression (RLE, ZIP and flatten layers). Each of these decisions would impact the file size, expecially the Image Pyramid and...

maybe what the OP really wants to know is how to work with transparencies?

You mean you want the image to be twice as large as it currently is? TIFF file format encodes quite a bit of information that may not be usefull to you if you are editing a personal family photo, chances are Photoshop is stripping alot of this extra information out when it resaves the file...

Duncan, the original poster mentioned that he wanted his canvas to be the exact size of his image and that his image was not square or rectangular, so well i may be wrong here, but I've never seen a canvas in PS that wasn't square or rectangular.

as far as I know your canvas pretty much has to be rectangular or square, no elliptical or polygonal canvasses for you!

I do this all the time, just memorise the ketstrokes to do it quickly select with marquee tool ctrl + c (to copy) ctrl + n (for new image) enter (the new image defaults to the size of whatevers in your clipboard) ctrl + v (to paste)

To switch to Image Ready from Photoshop just click that button that is on the bottom of the tools palette (the one that looks like a file with an arrow coming out of it)

the issue is when something is pasted from the clipboard, photoshop automaticlly centers it on a new layer, one way around this would be to have a couple of solid pixels (you should be able to even have these barely opaque) in the opposite corner from the watermark, that way when centered the...

Pk that one was fine, yeah, just click the the icon that looks like a checker board right beside the word "lock" that is located at the top of the layers pallette. fyi rob@vista.training.com

Make sure that you have the custom shape tool set to "paths" or "shape layers" and you will be able to delete anchor points using the "direct selection tool" (press "A" , then press "Shift + A" once or twice untill you get the white pointer), click on the interior star, hold down the shift...