Diagonal image

[SteveHigh]

Hello

I have a rectangular image (550 width x 878 height) which I would, eventually, like to place diagonally in a Word
document. I am trying to position and save it in Photoshop (ver 7) using the following:

Image | Rotate Canvass | Arbitrary | 18 CCW.

This places the image diagonally on top of another, rectangular transparent image. It is what might
be called an 'image box' to hold my diagonal image.

When I insert this into a Word document (like here:

http://www11.brinkster.com/stevehigham/kap.doc

I am not able to take my text up to the left diagonal side on my image - only up to the side of the 'image box' which contains it.

What I would like to do, then, is lift my diagonal image from its rectangular transparent background and save it like that. This would allow me, presumably, to insert this diagonal image into my Word document.

In other words, I would like a diagonal image in my Word document, as opposed to a diagonal image on a rectangular background.

But how do I cut it, this dialgonal image, from its background?

Many thanks.

Steve

 

[jimoblak]

Microsoft Word has a magic wand tool that can select a specific color and make it transparent.

You might also save your rotated image in PNG format with transparency.

You can also adjust in Word how text flows around images or ignores images. You'll have to do some fiddling to get the text to wrap well. Word is not ideal for page layout.

 

[mscallisto]

I not sure I understand the question but here is an answer anyway.

Option 1
With your current pic in MSWord you can

right click on the pic > Format Picture > choose Layout tab > choose behind text

Now you can place text anywhere around or over the pic.



Option 2
Save the pic (in PShop) as a transparent .gif (removing the so called 'image box')

 

[bam720]

You could save it as a square and do the rotation in word. That way the 'image box' has no extra space around the edges.

 

[SteveHigh]

Hello

Many thanks to all of you for your replies.

I will try each of them, but even if I place the diagonal image on a transparent image (showing Word's white document background), I thought that the PS image was still really there. In other words, any text would not go along the side of my diagonal image, but alongside the vertical side of the transparent background. But I will try it.

I could save it, as bam720 says, as a square/rectangular image and rotate it in Word, but I think images might need to be placed in a container (text box?) in Word for me to be able to rotate it. I am not sure if Word rotates images without being in a container. If it is in a container, I might have difficulty justifying the text (unless I put this text in a text box - but things get complicated them with photo captions and the like).

Anyway, I will try your ideas and many thanks again for replying.

Steve