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04/17/2015 04:02:47 PM · #1 |
am i allowed to crop my image to a shape other than a rectangle? advanced editing
yes i know when i save to jpg it will be a white box.
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04/17/2015 04:29:54 PM · #2 |
| Square crops show up as square. |
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04/17/2015 04:40:15 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Square crops show up as square. |
funny, what if i wanted to make a circle or some other shape?
ETA, i think know the answer, i'm just seeing if im actually breaking any rules (and which ones) by doing what i hope to do.
Message edited by author 2015-04-17 16:42:02. |
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04/17/2015 04:50:54 PM · #4 |
| I'm not clear on this, regarding the rules. Possibly in expert there would be no issue, but this might run up against the "no new shapes" part. To make a circle appear as such, you'd have to use the DPC bg color and copy it as your bg color. |
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04/17/2015 04:55:45 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
but this might run up against the "no new shapes" part. To make a circle appear as such, you'd have to use the DPC bg color and copy it as your bg color. |
that's what i was wondering...
I'm cropping off image area no different than a square or rectangular crop, the problem is that jpeg will force it to a rectangular shape and thus creating new area.. with png or gif this wouldn't be an issue. |
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04/17/2015 04:57:31 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
I'm not clear on this, regarding the rules. Possibly in expert there would be no issue, but this might run up against the "no new shapes" part. To make a circle appear as such, you'd have to use the DPC bg color and copy it as your bg color. |
Wouldn't it just be an 18% grey border? |
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04/17/2015 05:44:27 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by LN13:
Originally posted by tanguera:
I'm not clear on this, regarding the rules. Possibly in expert there would be no issue, but this might run up against the "no new shapes" part. To make a circle appear as such, you'd have to use the DPC bg color and copy it as your bg color. |
Wouldn't it just be an 18% grey border? |
As I said, I'M unclear. Perhaps one of the other SC with more knowledge can chime in. |
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04/17/2015 05:46:16 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Mike:
Originally posted by tanguera:
but this might run up against the "no new shapes" part. To make a circle appear as such, you'd have to use the DPC bg color and copy it as your bg color. |
that's what i was wondering...
I'm cropping off image area no different than a square or rectangular crop, the problem is that jpeg will force it to a rectangular shape and thus creating new area.. with png or gif this wouldn't be an issue. |
It is legal, if not necessarily advisable ... essentially you are creating a non-rectangular border.
A long time ago I demonstrated a method which would create a (slightly) non-rectangular border under the Basic rules, and I have one actual submission ... 
Note that even if you make your background/border an exact color match to the DPC page BG, there will still be a 1-pixel black rectangular border around the actual image. |
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04/17/2015 08:02:02 PM · #9 |
Many moons ago I submitted this:
It was under the long-defunct Classic Editing rules, but (other than perhaps the shadow in the border) I can't see it being illegal under today's Advanced Rules. |
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04/17/2015 08:10:22 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Note that even if you make your background/border an exact color match to the DPC page BG, there will still be a 1-pixel black rectangular border around the actual image. |
Kirbic's example is the issue. While you could probably get an exact match for the gray, you'd still have the square border. |
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