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I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a
picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it. The only thing that has worked so far is changing my printer settings it prints the watermark on every page and I only want it on the one page. I have found several tutorials where you can put text in front of images but whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white background. I only have photoshop elements to work with so I can't use a clipping path either. If anyone can help please do! Thanks, Jen |
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Generally, Microsoft Word is better for tasks such as catalogue
printing. Perhaps you could store the data in Excel, and use Word's Mail Merge feature to create the catalogue, with the watermark logos behind the text. Jen wrote: I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it. The only thing that has worked so far is changing my printer settings it prints the watermark on every page and I only want it on the one page. I have found several tutorials where you can put text in front of images but whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white background. I only have photoshop elements to work with so I can't use a clipping path either. -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Thanks for trying to help but I got in at the end of this
catalog and its done in excel. I don't want to change everything just trying to get this logo into the excel file and thought someone might know a trick. Thanks again, Jen -----Original Message----- Generally, Microsoft Word is better for tasks such as catalogue printing. Perhaps you could store the data in Excel, and use Word's Mail Merge feature to create the catalogue, with the watermark logos behind the text. Jen wrote: I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it. The only thing that has worked so far is changing my printer settings it prints the watermark on every page and I only want it on the one page. I have found several tutorials where you can put text in front of images but whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white background. I only have photoshop elements to work with so I can't use a clipping path either. -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html . |
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Thanks for helping everyone, I have tried making it a
watermark look but when I put other pictures on top they still have the white boarders around them. I am about to go crazy here...can anyone help?!?! Jen -----Original Message----- Jen - By "watermark", do you mean you want it faded? Select the picture, and the picture toolbar pops up. On a copy of the image, increase the brightness (the sun button with the up arrow) and decrease the contrast (the half gray filled button with the down arrow) until it's sufficiently washed out. Who says you need Word? I only use Word to read files other people send to me. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ wrote: Thanks for trying to help but I got in at the end of this catalog and its done in excel. I don't want to change everything just trying to get this logo into the excel file and thought someone might know a trick. Thanks again, Jen -----Original Message----- Generally, Microsoft Word is better for tasks such as catalogue printing. Perhaps you could store the data in Excel, and use Word's Mail Merge feature to create the catalogue, with the watermark logos behind the text. Jen wrote: I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it. The only thing that has worked so far is changing my printer settings it prints the watermark on every page and I only want it on the one page. I have found several tutorials where you can put text in front of images but whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white background. I only have photoshop elements to work with so I can't use a clipping path either. -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html . . |
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Jen -
Can you set the transparency color? It's one of the buttons on the Picture commandbar, which pops up when a picture is selected. If you don't want to use white as the transparency color because you have other white features in the picture, use a bitmap editor like MS Paint to color the border a color that isn't otherwise used in the picture, then back in excel, use that for the transparency color. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ Jen wrote: Thanks for helping everyone, I have tried making it a watermark look but when I put other pictures on top they still have the white boarders around them. I am about to go crazy here...can anyone help?!?! Jen -----Original Message----- Jen - By "watermark", do you mean you want it faded? Select the picture, and the picture toolbar pops up. On a copy of the image, increase the brightness (the sun button with the up arrow) and decrease the contrast (the half gray filled button with the down arrow) until it's sufficiently washed out. Who says you need Word? I only use Word to read files other people send to me. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ wrote: Thanks for trying to help but I got in at the end of this catalog and its done in excel. I don't want to change everything just trying to get this logo into the excel file and thought someone might know a trick. Thanks again, Jen -----Original Message----- Generally, Microsoft Word is better for tasks such as catalogue printing. Perhaps you could store the data in Excel, and use Word's Mail Merge feature to create the catalogue, with the watermark logos behind the text. Jen wrote: I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it. The only thing that has worked so far is changing my printer settings it prints the watermark on every page and I only want it on the one page. I have found several tutorials where you can put text in front of images but whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white background. I only have photoshop elements to work with so I can't use a clipping path either. -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html . . |
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