cut to the visible part

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lessismoore
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cut to the visible part

Postby lessismoore » Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:49 am

Hi,

Sometimes, when you use a filter, the image is surrounded with white space. The dimensions of the image then include the white space.

What is the most effective way to remove the white space and retain the actual image?

thanks

Bart

Lazur
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Re: cut to the visible part

Postby Lazur » Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:28 am

Hello there,

I assume you referring the white space on the background, and that with the filter applied the bounding box gets bigger than the original.
-White is only a display colour, it is actually transparent, and could bechanged to display other shades.-
Don't know how many filters you use on how many objects, or, if only the overall "image" should follow the actual image borders.
The workaround is the same though, use a clippig mask of the right size on the filtered object(s), image/group of objects.
That is how I would handle such situations, but there may be some filter setting I don't know that might also solve this.


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