Hi,

I need to create a photomontage, with some of the elements looking as if they were cut out of a sheet... um cut out to leave the image in a circular picture, difficult to explain exactly what I mean.

Well for instance, I tried this by using a largish brush and painting out the edges of an image - using white, leaving the image in a circular form surrounded by white.  I then set the palette transparence to white, and saved the image as a .gif - since I know that only gif supports transparency.  Looked fine in photoshop sitting there, the circular image surrounded by transparency.

BUT!  When I tried to copy that image and then paste it into the big image - it turned up alright but the transparency was back to white, with horrid square edges again, no oval picture.

I can select just the strange architectural building with it's weird curving roof and use a brush (white again) to paint out the sky behind it, I can save that image with the white as transparrent, looks just fine... but I can't then copy that image - without the white/transparent bits showing up as rotten old white... help?

I've looked around for tutorials, but can't tell which (if any) tutorials might cover this action.

Help?  (This is for work.)

Oh, at work I have Photoshop CS but on my laptop at home I have CS2 - help in doing this in either would be a great boon.

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