Cropping a photo as a circle with blurred edges
Help!! I should know how to do this - in fact there used to a
tutorial with it in I'm sure!! Can't find it though.
I am trying to take a photo, crop it so that it is circular
and blur the edges so I can insert in into a web page later using
Dreamweaver. At the moment the target page is white, but I would
like to be able to do this blurring into any baclground colour.
I'm sure I have done it before (Maybe in Fireworks 4 - I am
now using Fireworks MX) but I can't remember how - I can crop the
picture by drawing a circle and using "paste inside" but I can't
get the circle to detach from the "hidden" full picture and can't
remember how to blur the edges.
Help!!!
Enscott wrote:
> Help!! I should know how to do this - in fact there used
to a tutorial with it
> in I'm sure!! Can't find it though.
Draw an ellipse on top of the photo and fill it with white.
Change the
edge property of the ellipse from Antialiased to Feather.
Select both
the image and the ellipse and choose Modify > Mask >
Group as Mask. You
will be able to adjust the fade off at the edge by adjusting
the feather
amount.
The only way to export the image to fade into any background
is to
export it in 32-bit PNG format. Unfortunately, it will not
display
properly in Internet Explorer without first applying some
proprietary
markup called the Alpha Image Loader Filter. You can learn
more about
that here:
http://www.playingwithfire.com/test/pngbehavior/demo.html
Another option is to export it in SWF format and apply wmode
transparency.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
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