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danam50
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May 31, 2018
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Edit - and clear is greyed out...

  • May 31, 2018
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I've just been following a tutorial around putting an image in a circle - the advice was to draw the shape onto the image using shape tool, then Select - Inverse, then... Edit - Clear (to clear the background), but I cannot select clear as it is greyed out.  Not sure what to do to clear background...

I'm using version 12.1 - CS5...   Any ideas of what i can do? 

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      Dynamic Office
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      May 31, 2018

      This probably has something to do with which layer you’re trying to remove the background from, you must have the layer selected which you’d like to make the edit on (In this case the edit is deleting)

      1. Another way is to just press Delete on your keyboard J
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      danam50Author
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      May 31, 2018

      Thanks for the answers - for some reason it's still not working!  I have the correct layer selected and when  simply try to delete, get the message that the smart object is not directly editable - either with inverse selected or not... :-)

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      Dynamic Office
      Legend
      May 31, 2018

      To make the circle selection you could have just used the Elliptical Marquee Tool, that would have saved you a bit of time.

      I don't know why they said this "the advice was to draw the shape onto the image using shape tool" in the tutorial, seems an odd way to make a selection


      You can also copy/cut your image, use the Elliptical Marquee Tool, make your shape (hold shift to keep it a perfect circle), then Edit > Paste into

      Then your image will paste directly into the circle and you can move/transform/edit the image and it will still remain in the circle.

      Much easier than the tutorial you're using

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