Hi ya'll
How do you remove the black background around the pictures you take from the Paizo PDF files?
For example if you copy a picture from the PDF and you place it in word/photoshop you get this irritating black-background on it that doesn't show up on the normal picture in the book.
How do you remove that black background from the picture?? You can't erase it with one tool that turns large black areas on pictures into white ones as that destroys the pictures too and i'm too lazy to erase ALL black stuff from all monster pictures as that takes ages and i'm sure there is a better solution.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks
The deal is that whatever program the file is moving through is not able to handle transparencies properly and so turns them into whatever the background color is.
If it is Photoshop doing this then it may be as easy as changing your default background color, but I am guessing that it is actually whatever extraction process you are using.
As for removing the background it should be pretty easy in Photoshop. You would want to make the picture on a layer instead of the background (to allow transparency), use the magic wand selection tool with 0 tolerance and click on the black. You may need to then modify the selection (I like using masks, but whatever you are comfortable with) depending on the picture, but in most cases that 0 tolerance will make it only select the added black.
Sean
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When I'm using TokenTool (www.rptools.net), and have a pdf I can drag the image over from the pdf and the black space is unusable, i use the screen capture and it preserves how it looks in the book. There are also some odd artifacts that pull out in some images (the flying skulls in the Haunting of Harrowstone bestiary for example). I don't know if this helps any, but yeah, try using a screen shot if you don't need anything with a lot of detail.
Yeah, as long as you don't need a hi-res image, screen print works really well. You can paste the screen data directly into Photoshop.
The problem with screen shots, as mentioned, is that they are at screen resolution (72 dpi) and don't look great printed. If you are going to do this, zoom in as far as you can still have it look good on the screen (ie as big as possible), then take the capture. If you can then reduce the size while letting it raise the dpi then you preserve the most you can.
Sean