You know, I had an old friend, Steve, over last night, wanting to borrow my connection, to upload some photo’s to a website he’s a member of.
Which was handy!
It meant I could try a trick with Preview I’d picked up from Pogue Press’ rather good “Missing Manual for Mac OS X: The Leopard Edition”.
Before it goes out of date, on Friday!
Something I’d found I could do with Preview is use the Select button to call up the little window — the one with ‘Rectangular Selection’, ‘Elliptical Selection’, ‘Lasso Selection’, ‘Extract Shape’, and ‘Instant Alpha’ — which, when I hit the ‘Extract Shape’ button, allows me to draw a line around a shape I want to cut around — in this case, me — and save it as a .png file.
Quite what the technical details exactly mean, I really couldn’t tell you, exactly.
But I know that, after using Preview to extract a shape from an image, I can use the Gimp to fill in the empty spaces to put in an entertaining background.
Which wasn’t something Steve fancied.
Too artificial, apparently.
O-kaaay …
One of these day’s, I’m really going to have to have a word, there … !
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And I’ve got to admit, I had a couple of interesting natters; one with a workmate, and one with Gwen, bless, her.
And both agreeing that Roy Jay — the Spook Spook, Slither, Hither Man — was is either weird, or funny, depending on your mood.
It’s just a shame I can’t find little more than the Schweppes ad, on YouTube …
If anyone finds anything, could you let me know?
Ta!
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