lasso center, delete, join top & bottom

[fungus]

I need to remove the white stripes on a red&white candy cane and join the red stripes for an image half the length, get it?

Actually the need is to open 100-500mb tiff images of tree ring cores and remove cracks/gaps, same concept as the candy cane.

Photoshop seems unable to do this and now Illustrator seems unable to do this simple task. I need to do it 100 times.. Image shows use of lasso to outline and select white area, now I want to remove white area and bring top and bottom image parts to join together, for one edited image of dark wood piece.

Please help. Perhaps I will have to find some other software otherwise

Cheers

[Monika Gause]

I don't understand the problem.

Besides: if you want to edit pixel images, use Photoshop.

[gerard1951]

Monika

it is confusing whether your comment means you don't understand how i could not know how to do the task, or whether you actually don't understand the candy cane example.

I began with this question on the Photoshop guru forum and no one seems able to solve it despite over 120 views , so then i put it on Illustrator forum assuming i could save in pixel format. Yes, i need pixels as the software for recording tree rings utilizes the exact (uncompressed, and thus tiff) format.

please help if you can

cheers

[Doug A Roberts]

this is a photoshop job. can you link to your post on the PS forum?

[gerard1951]

Dougofakkad, Just got this great and helpful answer from Guru below with a wonderful MP4 video!

Problems solved

cheers

Re: Lasso cut remove center, join top to bottom

is this what you want ?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u0noh6y69q...ungus.mp4?dl=0first =select + cut + paste
second = move and mask (paint on the mask / white reveals black conceals)

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[Doug A Roberts]

good to hear it.